Net
of good and Evil
If
you don’t have power to give life to lifeless
u have no right to snatch it. Debate on mercy killing continues in our
society and somewhere we have even succeeded in legalizing it too. Those who
favors mercy killing argues that if medical science have no answer to the disease a patient suffers
from and if the pain/ trauma gets unbearable mercy killing should be permissible. Besides
above nasty thought of honor killing also exist in our surrounding but here I describe
a tragic incidence of similar type of killing which I have heard from one of my
friends alter’s distant cousin about his hapless friend.
Suman
was hapless child of society who had lost his parents and belongings in a
devastated tsunami. Suman had also lost his voice in calamity and become
dependent completely on a distant relative. His distant relative, in stead of
leaving him at child care home brought him at their house. Since Suman had
already lost his voice he needed proper
care but fact was that he had been completely being neglected as far as proper
taking care was concerned. Whenever Suman’s childhood friend would visit at his
house Suman never opened up his ordeal but his condition itself was speaking
enough and one day Dr diagnosed that he is suffering from disease for which he
needs good care. Doctor said prevention from particular thing is essential for
his better treatment. Doctor had also warned that if precaution during daily
intake is not taken it will hazardous for his life. Suman knew what kind of care
he needed at the same time he was aware of indifferent behavior so he kept tolerating
or say he had to tolerate. Lack of proper care
eventually resulted further deterioration of his health and a day comes
when his disease and pain finally commiserated upon him. After a deadly pain he
breathes his last.
News
of his death was not surprising as Alter knew that Suman was literally counting
the days given that the way he had been being treated. Only one thing which he
had in mind and was expecting that Suman would have lived a bit longer if Suman
‘s kin followed properly what doc had advised but this did not happen. Perhaps
he might have been deemed a kind of burden. Prevention is better than cure
hence even if cure of Suman’s disease
was looking difficult, Disease could have been at least controlled from
worsening further through better care at home. Acquaintances said that Suman was
forced to die premature death.
Morale
of the Story-: We are proud of being the best creature on earth but somehow animal
instinct do live inside us. One thing which we don’t do so far is “ Killing fellow
human beings and eat their fleshes”. Otherwise we do most of the inhuman
activities, animals are widely known for. If we look around we at times prove
ourselves to be the best creature the way we care our pet animals but it was
full of pity that Suman who though being himself a human could not get human’s
favor and became easy victim of indifferent behavior of even fellow human
beings. In brief this incident was clear example of decline of human value.
John
Steinbeck says “ Humans are caught – in their lives, in their thoughts, in their
hunger and ambition, in their avarice and in their kindness and generosity too—in
a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have.”
End
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