When you are not the owner of your life.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/10/my-death-is-not-my-own-the-limits-of-legal-euthanasia

Human beings, as rational animals that live in an equality environment, are free. We can pact and live with laws and systems to have all the same opportunities, rights and respect, and we will feel that we have constructed a free society. But what makes us free is not that the others respect our freedom, is that they cannot take it away from us. A person will never own another, because every human being has rights, but above all, has the power of life: we can decide to stop living whenever we want. Simply by this fact, no one can force another one to do anything.

The problem is that our conception of death is a little bit wrong, the natural feeling about death is to be afraid and to anything to avoid it, but actually, death is nothing. To die is simply to stop existing, and apart from everything we thought when we were alive, when we die we stop feeling. Therefore, it does not matter if you were too young, if your mother will be depressed or if you had burned a hospital, you will not exist, so for you those things do also not exist. Death itself is in no way harmful for us. As my philosophy teacher said: “When you are in a room, death is not there, when death comes in, you are already out”.

I have not read much about Euthanasia, but if there has been a big debate is that there are so many different opinions. It is forbidden in most of the countries, so in general people is against it. And it is normal, because thanks to science and medicine now we live much longer and we can survive to lots of illnesses that back then killed us, talking about developed countries. So, death has disappeared a little of our lives, and when someone is ill almost always the medicine can solve the problem. But when not, and that someone thinks that it is not worth it to continue living, what can we do? I have often seen at films or read how people, in wildest situations where no one can blame them, killed their companions because they were clearly suffering for nothing, and even without asking. So it is a natural fact, sad, but the better.

I think that the cruel ones are those who, in spite of how the person feels, keep him or her alive just with the hope that this person will someday return to a normal life. Probably the one that is dying is often kept alive because no one wants to realise that he is dead. Anyway, it is a self decision and if anyone wants to do it I do not understand why he is not allowed to.