Death.
Short word, packed with intent and depending on your world view, is either the end of the journey or just a connection station on the train ride of life. This issue of world view is not just one of "what happens next?", it also has a pretty major influence on what happens before too.
"Prevention is better than cure" is a phrase that often is associated with the word "Death". Most people feel it is better to limit yourself to prolong your lifespan. The general concensus is living longer is living better, regardless of whether those years are actually enjoyed or not. Why eat that cake you want and enjoy your life for those minutes when you could run a mile instead of suffer those minutes, in order to achieve a few more days of life in which you likely will either be running yet again or doing something else as meaningless.
The concept of "Death" is one that concerns everyone and always will. Some fear it, some have an attitude of curiousity and some actively seek it for whatever reason they decide upon. The opinion on death is as varied as the causes of it and this also creates fear. Fear that you can't just 'die' in a singular fashion. There is no uniformal method of death, you could be hit by a bus, fall off a cliff or just never wake up.
"Death" is also the paradox of life, in that one cannot exist without the other and that they are the siblings of destiny, one having control the vast majority of the time, with the twin ultimately gaining the win at the end.
The question I put forward is this - should "Death" be an outside force or is it the one fate above all others that we should have control of?
People think they are free, they are free to live their lives and control how it plays out. Be a student, get a job, get married, stay single - it's all their choice and what a choice it is, but is there really any choice at all? Take away the facade of the lifestyles and you are then left again with life and "Death" and this is where your choice ends. You have life and it is not in your power to choose "Death", that is out of your hands.
Why is the most natural part of life, the twin axis of life and the inevitable fate of it not permitted to be in our hands? Why are we seemingly granted freedom to choose what sort of bland economic unit we are but we aren't allowed to choose when our life ends?
I feel that in order to be truely free, we must have the open, legal and approachable way to choose "Death" over life. You don't need some suicide cult and you don't need some religious extremism, but you also don't need day after day of existence if you feel it brings you no evolutionary purpose and no gratification. Why are we forced to suffer a life we find pointless when the most important choice we should have is denied from us?
Clearly, this does not apply to everyone or even a large section of society but there is a section that it does apply to and even the thought of it has crossed their minds. This is a fundamental, core part of life that is passed over for reasons I simply cannot understand. There doesn't need to be any mobile death vehicles like in China or 'suicide booths' like in the cartoon "Futurama" but there, in my humble opinion, needs to be a way for people who feel like life has passed them by or who feel they've done all they can, to remove themselves from the pointless repetition that a life unwanted can bring, without having to purposefully overdose on pills or jump infront of a train.
Allow people to "die" on their own terms and eliminate the grief. Why is living to 98 and dying slowly from cancer seen as a better way to go than to decide "I've done all I can and want to, let me get on to something else now"? Is this right denied to us all for the benefit of others, to make it easy on people so they don't have to suffer the loss of a loved one or is it a situation where the economy won't allow people to remove their worker bee self from the hive?
You can propose infinite reasons why this is but I have yet to hear one logical reason why this shouldn't be. Life IS Death, the right to die is the right to live, why we allow one aspect while denying the other is illogical, inbalanced and cause more harm than it tries to deny.
Think about it.
