If you feel that strongly about it, put it in writing. Preferably with a couple of witnesses. Or at least in your own handwriting. Is that too much to ask?
Don't you think it's asking a lot of us to expect us to trust the people who are going to inherit when you die, or are going to somehow otherwise benefit from your death?
I get asked all the time to intervene on behalf of those who cannot help themselves. How can you expect me to know whether you are one of the ones who wanted to live, or one of the ones who wanted to die?
In the case of Terri Schiavo, she was raised Catholic, but married a man without religion. And she left nothing in writing.
Her wishes to die were expressed by people who hardly knew her -- her husband's brother, and her husband's sister-in-law, married to another brother. And the people who raised her, her nuclear family, said otherwise.
Further, it is completely contrary to the Catholic religion to allow assisted suicide. It is, in fact, a mortal sin. According to the Catholic Church, if you commit suicide, you're going to burn in hell for all eternity.
It's no kindness to assist people in going to hell. In fact, it condemns you to the same hell. A few years of pain on earth are nothing compared with eternity.
No, if you want the people who love you to help you commit suicide by proxy, I think you need to put that in writing. And don't expect them to do it just because you ask.
I won't.
Love means different things to different people. Sending you to the eternal flames of hell, to me, is not love. |
