[Reader-list] Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim seeks SC permission to die

Fri Dec 18 09:13:00 IST 2009

IMHO according to Indic theology the notion of euthanasia is not amoral.

Some excerpts from the script of the movie "The Sea Inside"

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/sea-inside-script-transcript-javier.html

"and we take to ridiculous extremes the
bourgeois definition of private property

You are killing me

But if Church was the first one in
secularizing the private property

- I can't tell him that
- How come?

Should I tell him that?

Freedom to choose my beliefs...no,
his beliefs and decide over his life

Ok, now you tell him

Why does the Church keep that posture
of terror of death with such passion?

Because it knows that it would lose
a great amount of its customers

if people lose their fear to the Great Beyond

He reminds you that according to the polls,
  % of the Spanish are in favor of euthanasia

Very well, very well. Now you tell him that
moral issues are not resolved through polls

Because most of the German
people were also in favor of Hitler

Now he is going to compare
me to Hitler. That is very rude

No, not that

Ask him what Hitler has to do with all this

No wait... Padre Francisco, do you hear me?

Yes. Ramon I can hear you

Why do you mix pears with apples?

I hope you didn't come here to do demagoguery.

Because you Jesuits know a lot about that.

No, no. Of course not.

But since you bring up
demagoguery, my dear Ramon.

Don't you think that what's really
demagogic, is to say "Death with dignity"

Why don't you leave the euphemisms aside
and call things by its name, with all its rawness

"l take my life" and that's it...

Your interest in me keeps surprising me,
while the institution that you represent

accepts the death penalty and condemned
those who didn't think the right way,
to the bonfire for centuries

Now you are the one doing demagoguery

Yes of course, but leaving the euphemisms
aside, as you say that's what you
would have done with me, right?

Burn me alive

Burn me for defending my freedom

Ramon, my friend...

Friend?

Ramon, my friend. A freedom
that eliminates life is not freedom

And a life that eliminates freedom is not life either

--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:

> From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim seeks SC permission to die
> To: "A.K. Malik" <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Sarai List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 2:32 AM
> Dear Aditya,
> 
> Thank you for forwarding this story. I personally support
> euthenasia  
> and the right to die with dignity, and am saddened at the
> Supreme  
> Court's decision not to let those close to Aruna Shanbaug
> extend to  
> her the ultimate solidarity and succour of a peaceful,
> dignified,  
> assisted end to her suffering.
> 
> best,
> 
> Shuddha
> 
> 
> On 17-Dec-09, at 6:02 PM, A.K. Malik wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mr Kaul,
> >           
>    What a justice system in our country? The
> victim  
> > woman gets 36 yrs to live as a veggi and the culprit
> who did all  
> > this to her gets 7 yrs only for attempt to murder and
> lives happily  
> > after the sentence.
> > Regards,
> >
> > (A.K.MALIK)
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 12/17/09, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [Reader-list] Unconscious for last 36
> yrs; victim seeks  
> >> SC permission to die
> >> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> >> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:55 PM
> >> Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim
> >> seeks SC permission to die*Press Trust
> >> Of India*
> >> New Delhi, December 17, 2009
> >>
> >> Should a woman who has been lying unconsious in a
> Mumbai
> >> hospital for 36
> >> years be allowed to die or be left in the current
> >> vegetative state?
> >>
> >> That was the question put before the Supreme Court
> today
> >> when it said that
> >> “under the law of the country, we cannot allow a
> person
> >> to die”.
> >>
> >> The remarks by a Bench comprising Chief Justice K
> G
> >> Balakrishnan and
> >> Justices A K Ganguly and B S Chauhan came when a
> direction
> >> was sought that
> >> the woman be not fed.
> >>
> >> The Bench sought a response from the Centre and
> Maharashtra
> >> government on a
> >> petition moved by 59-year-old Aruna Ramchandra
> Shanbaug who
> >> has been lying
> >> in a vegetative state for last 36 years in
> Mumbai’s KEM
> >> hospital after being
> >> sexually assaulted by a sweeper.
> >>
> >> The Bench, which was hesitant to entertain the
> petition,
> >> agreed to issue the
> >> notice after advocate Shekhar Nafde explained it
> is not the
> >> case of
> >> “euthanasia” and the plea on behalf of the
> hapless
> >> woman was moved by her
> >> next friend Pinki Virani.
> >>
> >> “This is no human right. Her life is worse than
> animal
> >> existence,” the
> >> advocate said referring to Shanbaug.
> >>
> >> He said Shanbaug, who had joined as a nurse in the
> KEM
> >> hospital in 1966, was
> >> sexually assaulted in 1973, rendered immobile and
> >> unconscious and has been
> >> lying on bed after the incident.
> >>
> >> The petition sought a direction for the state
> government
> >> and Municipal
> >> Corporation of Brihan Mumbai to carry out tests
> to
> >> ascertain the medical
> >> condition of the woman.
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