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Originally Posted by kinnikpasswordforgetter
yes, it is the purpose of vitalists such as yourself to convince the suffering that they must suffer at all costs, to affirm your superstitious and amoral outlook that is blind to the quality of life in the name of upholding its supposed sacredness. it is for your fear of death that people must be kept alive as long as possible in conditions of deplorable agony. after all god wouldn't make us just to suffer and then die!
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Supposed sacredness? Get over yourself, there is nothing sacred about an ICU, but there
is something sacred about the depth of the human heart which can endure such suffering empathetically and directly without collapsing under its own weight. Life hurts, so what?
What makes us moral, human beings is that our
love for each other allows us to stand by our friends, family, lovers and neighbors when they are suffering, even to the point of death. We don't try to convince people to live because it is righteous to suffer, no, we are not necessarily trying to convince them of anything. The reason you don't let a person kill themselves is because it is selfish and lazy on our part to be complicit in the act. These people are suicidal because they are in pain, they are afraid, and may be lonely. They need physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support from other human beings. They need to be touched, to be held, to be appreciated, to simply have a human being at the foot of the deathbed to co-exist with, because human beings are social creatures. What you are proposing is heartless, selfish and lazy. We don't help each other out with suffering because of morality or of a fear of God, we help each other out because of LOVE.
We love those who suffer, and we feel
their pain, and we
share it with them, so that they are never
alone through it. We can't understand, be it from a scientific or religious perspective why people die or suffer, but what we can do as human beings is stop, pause and breathe a moment, and then do what the fuck we
have to do to stick it out like adults and take
care of each other regardless of the mutual pain. Even wolves don't kill their own out of injury, but the pack stays together till the bitter end..