#deathwithdignity

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A summer's day. It's hot, the woman on the radio is talking about a heatwave, her words filtering through the static. The wildflowers on the table are small and bug bitten, coloured petals decorating the tablecloth. There's a breeze and we're sat outside, old patio furniture with flaky paint and rusted metal, drinking juice from mugs. That breeze is circling her face, her hair moving slightly, back and forth. She laughs. Its the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I've been staring too long it seems, watching her movements with an adoring smile. She doesn't seem real, not like this, when she's in the sun, bare shoulders relaxed, a small pendant around your neck. The chain is caught on her collarbone, displaced when you stretched and unmoved since. Oh, I realise. I'm still staring. She's still laughing. And the sun still shines.

If we believe it’s more humane to euthanize animals when their quality of life has decreased so significantly it’s no longer bearable why don’t we extend this same courtesy to humans? To deny the right to choose death with dignity is to deny humans a right we provide to house pets and farm animals.

There are still hundreds of people struggling and being denied the right to a dignified death that need a voice.

First cover I’m learning on the ukulele is a Sufjan song 😁 #sufjanstevens #deathwithdignity #carrieandlowell #ukulele #acoustic https://www.instagram.com/p/CCn8Z5-DkO1/?igshid=7ewoo7lnarfr

Atul Gawande Being Mortal