Italian Poet Dies With Help From a Doctor

Commentary of a news of the New York Times
(By Ian Fisher- Published: December 22, 2006)
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We know the definition of Euthanasia : "the intentional termination of life by another, at the explicit request of the person who seeks death as a last resort ". Like so many other terms in our language euthanasia has many meanings. Some people define euthanasia to include both voluntary and involuntary termination of life.The result is a confusion among our society with two points of view.

On one hand we can consider the euthanasia as a patient voluntarily brings about his or her own death with the assistance of a person. This is the case of Mr. Welby. He decided to stop his suffering because his final will be the same. It's his life and he can decide about it. The person who helps him to obtain his decision to die isn't a criminal; it's his last hope to avoid a major agony. Dr. Mario Riccio, who removed Piergiorgio Welby’s respirator, isn't a criminal.

On the other hand, this term is considered to be murder, for the fact the patient is unable to give a written or verbal consent. This is the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church which opposes euthanasia and for this reason Mr. Welby’s case opens the doors of a debate in Parliament about if Italians, one day, will allow to specify what medical treatment they would accept.

In my opinion, in the United States have the correct and logical system because they assure you that your election will be done and, it's clear, the suffering doesn't form a part of it. United States "allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine when terminally ill patients request it". It's the best election, why do we have to suffer without any sense?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/world/europe/22italy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

ILLUSIONS

I would like to throw a question: when you lose an illusion for something, do you think it will return? or do you think it isn’t a question that this illusion returns to born because we need to find new or renewed illusions?

All the world have illusions, intentions... When we don't obtain one of them we can insist or desist, but it depends on the character of the person or on the type of illusion. I believe that the illusion gets lost when you don't have with whom sharing it.

In these dates the majority we have a common illusion: the lottery. Isn’t it? It’s a material illusion but it can make us obtain a lot of other illusions. Would you like to share it?