Freedeom ... To Live and Die

Freedom ...... to Live and Die   

Early morning a news .... Aruna Shanbaug .... But when many felt bad she died , I actually felt a sense of immense peace . Her sufferings have ceased and she is without any doubt in a much better perfect place . 

A lifetime of suffering we cannot even imagine .... 43 years !!?? 

Can u imagine yourself not being able to move for even a day ... depending on people for even your most private and personal needs ? 

When one hears such things , how can we not think of life and fate as a SADDIST in capitals . 

A night before your wedding .... when dreams and happiness know no bounds ..... A rape in the most dreaded way ...... to be violated and shattered and scarred for life ..... to loose everything in your hands in a few hours .... and then to almost go through all this again without even being able to fight for yourself ..... unimaginable , cruel ...  

Too scary to even think ..

Then to be put at the mercy of anyone who wills or can for 43 ??? 43 long dreadful years ..... when you can sense every thing around you but cannot even move an inch . Tears run freely as i type this as i slowly sense the helplessness that tortured soul must have felt ....

Not being able to think , speak , feel , but forced to live a life at the mercy of others .... 

More shocking was the fact that when the plea for Euthnasia was submitted at the Supreme Court the people who opposed it most were the hospital staff !!! 

Were they not the people who understood her condition the most ? Did they not know that she would never ever walk or speak or live as a normal human being again . Did they not know how humiliating it would have been for her to allow people to handle her as they please for 4 decades !!! 

Would it not have been an act of respect to her to allow her to leave with her dignity intact .... 

This is definitely my personal opinion and am sure there would be many who disagree . 

Maybe if I think for an extra minute I would oppose it too ? 

Am not sure .... what if she sensed things around her , what if she hoped to recover , to be able to walk again , to be able to live normally again .... then would another person taking this decision for her , without sensing her want to live , be wrong ? Maybe ? 

The situation gets more disappointing as I think . 

What a cursed life .... what a solutionless situation ..... can things get more cruel we think .... 

Yes it can .... 

Even after she passed on people fight like stray dogs on who will do the last rites and how ???? 

Please give her respect atleast after she has died .... have you once thought whether she had imagined her own death ? 

What if she was afraid of fire .... would she want to be burnt ?

What if she was claustrophobic , would she want to be shut tight in a spaceless coffin ..... ? 

What if she had people she loved and wanted them to have these rights ? 

She could not choose when she was alive .... she could not choose after she ceased to .... what a predicament , what fate is this ? 

A life without a life , a journey where every road you take is decided by another , where you started a journey to some place you love but got so lost in between that you could never find your way back ... neither to where you started off nor to your destination and got lost ina permanent maze. 

Years and decades with only sight and no other sense that you can control or use .... what a painful thought even , the tears still flow freely just as the words from my heart ... 

Even animals stand silently around a dead one in their midst , RESPECT ..

The least that could be done was to give her respect and dignity and send her off together peacefully . 

Just hoping she is in a better place ... where there will not be hands to tear her apart , where she can embark on journeys and reach her destination and mainly where she will finally start Living ! 

When many say RIP or Rest in Peace .... I sincerely wish and hope that she starts Living in Peace ....