EUTHANASIA IS OUT BIRTHRIGHT -- OSHO.

Euthanasia, or the freedom to choose your death, should be accepted. Those who have chosen to die should be given special consideration and help in every hospital. Their death should be beautiful.
  • One month should be given to those who do not wish to live any longer. Fix the age limit to 75 or 80 years.
  • The time should be spent in hospital with all facilities and training in meditation to prepare for a happy death.
  • If he changes his mind during that period, he should be free to go home to his family and friends.
Euthanasia will be with permission of the medical board. With one month's rest in hospital, every kind of help can be given to the person to become calm and quiet and all friends and family should be allowed to come and met him because he is going on a long journey. There is no question of preventing him; he has lived long, and does not want to go on living, his work is finished. He should be taught meditation in this one month, so that he meditates while death comes. We can change thousands of people's deaths into enlightenment.
Euthanasia is becoming more and more a need, because people are living longer as a result of progress in medical sciences. Hippocrates gave an oath to the medical profession that you have to help life in every case. He couldn't have known that a day could come when, out of 10 children, all 10 would survive. Now that is happening.
In America, there are thousands of people in hospitals just lying in their beds with all kinds of instruments connected to them. many are on artificial breathing machines. What is the point? There are many people dying on the streets, starving, why not tend to them? 
Force is in every way undemocratic. Let's be rational. Make it 80 years; then life is lived enough. Children are grown up...You are retired; you don't know what to do. That is why ole people are so irritable: because they don't have any work, respect or dignity. They are unhappy and shout at the slightest provocation.
These are simply their frustrations that are showing; the real thing is they want to die. But they cannot even say it. The very idea of death is irreligious.
They should be given freedom, but not only to die; they should be given the freedom of undergoing one month's training in how to die. Meditation and physical care should be basic parts of that training. They should be healthy, whole, silent and peaceful - slowly slipping deep into sleep.
And if meditation is joined with sleep, they may die enlightened. They may know that only the body is left behind, and they are part of eternity. Their death will be better than ordinary death, you don't have the chance of becoming enlightened. In special institutes for death where every arrangement is made, you can leave fire in a joyous, ecstatic way, with gratitude. -- (Abridged from Osho Times International, courtesy Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com). --

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