condemned to live

Can you imagine living like a vegetable for 17 years?
I just read about an Italian woman who had been in a
vegetative state since a car accident in 1992.
Last Tuesday she was transferred to a hospital where
she will be allowed to die.
According to her father this has been her wish.
Others call this a murder, an assisted suicide.
What do you think?
What do I think?
I think that the complexity of this question reveals the
extremely complicated psychology of man.
Man has become so skilled in his ability to protect life
that his victory has turned into a defeat.
The victorious achievement of science has become a
tragedy for one individual. She is kept in between
life and death depending on other people’s judgment
for her destiny.
God has not made it impossible for man to kill himself.
That is man‘s right as strange as it sounds.
Obviously that is not the only way for man to violate
God’s will. All sin is an attack against God.
This is one of the key ethical questions in today’s world.
It has become more and more difficult to define the border
between human rights and human duties.
Man cannot master perfect justice.
In the midst of all these politicized debates every man
is led to a place where he needs to depend on God’s absolutes.
The gift of life is one of those absolutes.
Once you start removing that old landmark you will soon
be in danger yourself to be considered unfitting for
this world and therefore condemned to be eliminated
by some democratically elected board of world dictators.