Death is a sensitive topic, and choosing it makes it more sensitive.
This is a record of how her husband, who had Alzheimer, choose to end his life while he was still in charge of his body. It is a difficult read because this was the first time I read such a record of someone choosing his death.
The most sensitive part is where his journey ends, and that takes the minimum space and leaves the most profound impression. It is a book of journey and not the destination.
However, the larger thought here is that do we've the right to die? All the advancement in science, tech, and medicine enables us to understand the aspect of life/death better than we ever did. Life is an endeavour but death is a more philosophical thought not just by contrast but because after it, there is nothing more than a thought left. Life needs nurturing but death doesn't need anything other than a thought.
Capital punishment is still a lawful instrument in many countries which terminates somebody's right to live. Of course, it is given in the most dire circumstances. But is this a valid argument that if the social agencies like court of law has the power to terminate a life, why the life itself doesn't have the choice of self termination? Can people with terminal illness opt for an easy way out when they still have a control over it rather? What can be the other situations when people should be allowed to exercise this right?
These are the questions which only a person with sound mind with not so sound body can answer. And it ends at making a choice, and everyone else respecting the choice.
Peace
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