The Heart Beat Fades.
For those who Know I am Functionally Homeless and unemployed. I have places to Stay becuase I have amazing and caring friends so don't worry I am not shivering on a park bench near a wifi hub.
That chunk of Modern technology, The Leash... has gone unpaid for a couple months. I lack the income to turn it back on. I never bothered charging it, nor did I bother turning it off. It just lays there in the pocket of a back pack or satchel or drawer some place for the last week. Last night it started giving the Low battery tone warnings. In my apathy and personal distress over the sad news delivered by a friend I chose to just pass the fuck out rather than find the fucking leash to shut it off. Throughout the night there has been a Beep every 5 minutes. Now in my waking hours the beep persists to inform me that it needs to be plugged in, it needs to be shut off.... anything but to allow it to slowly fade away in painful misery, dying one measure of stored energy at a time forced to remain vigilant for calls and messages that will never come. That heart beat is fading its a dull hum in the background now, nothing more.
So the Debate rages on the world over. Do we leave them on life support? Constantly pouring Nutrients and energy into their motionless bodies beyond the point of repair? Or do we Pull the Plug and Let them die swiftly and peacefully?
What if we pull the plug and its not so swift? Not so peaceful? How many days does it take to starve to death? How many minutes to suffocate? Hours to die of toxemia? Will you stand there and watch their bodies die? Knowing that suffocation is terrifying, hunger is lonely, toxemia is painful. They are suffering, will you not help them speed things along and end the suffering? Did they tell you, Please let my last moments be as cruel and painful as possible?
In my aspirations to become America's First Libertarian Dictator I have often looked at popular issues and tried to figure out where they fit with my political, philosophical and moral beliefs. There are some issues that simply don't have an easy answer. In those cases I believe we have to leave it up to the individuals, and if all else fails the civil courts. The federal government doesn't need to get involved in the life and death decisions every family has to eventually make. Laws that prevent options from being available need to be repealed. The determination of our destiny needs to be placed in our hands, and in those unthinkable cases where something happens when no one can know the wishes of the victim, they must be left up to the families and the civil courts to hammer it out.
Personally I wanted to Die in combat. Since my country decided I was far to valuable as a file clerk... Now I am trapped in this mess we have let our society become. Red tape and regulations reaching into almost every facet of my daily life. The Laws that hold back and interfere with our daily lives and our ability to move about freely need to be repealed so we can live our lives as we see fit. We are so scared something bad is going to happen to us we collectively let the worst thing possible happen in our quest for safety, we became cattle.
No creature on earth is more Safe and beloved as the Milk Cow. From Cradle to Grave the farmer ensures their medical care, he feeds them, he cleans them, if one wanders off and becomes lost he searches for them. Then one day they have outlived their usefulness as a milk cow and he puts them to their final use, Purina, Alpo and Meow Mix or possibly human consumption, but the disposition of the body is completely the farmers decision. That is the life we have designed for our selves looking to the gov't as our Herders.
The Leash is still beeping... How long till the damn thing dies?
That chunk of Modern technology, The Leash... has gone unpaid for a couple months. I lack the income to turn it back on. I never bothered charging it, nor did I bother turning it off. It just lays there in the pocket of a back pack or satchel or drawer some place for the last week. Last night it started giving the Low battery tone warnings. In my apathy and personal distress over the sad news delivered by a friend I chose to just pass the fuck out rather than find the fucking leash to shut it off. Throughout the night there has been a Beep every 5 minutes. Now in my waking hours the beep persists to inform me that it needs to be plugged in, it needs to be shut off.... anything but to allow it to slowly fade away in painful misery, dying one measure of stored energy at a time forced to remain vigilant for calls and messages that will never come. That heart beat is fading its a dull hum in the background now, nothing more.
So the Debate rages on the world over. Do we leave them on life support? Constantly pouring Nutrients and energy into their motionless bodies beyond the point of repair? Or do we Pull the Plug and Let them die swiftly and peacefully?
What if we pull the plug and its not so swift? Not so peaceful? How many days does it take to starve to death? How many minutes to suffocate? Hours to die of toxemia? Will you stand there and watch their bodies die? Knowing that suffocation is terrifying, hunger is lonely, toxemia is painful. They are suffering, will you not help them speed things along and end the suffering? Did they tell you, Please let my last moments be as cruel and painful as possible?
In my aspirations to become America's First Libertarian Dictator I have often looked at popular issues and tried to figure out where they fit with my political, philosophical and moral beliefs. There are some issues that simply don't have an easy answer. In those cases I believe we have to leave it up to the individuals, and if all else fails the civil courts. The federal government doesn't need to get involved in the life and death decisions every family has to eventually make. Laws that prevent options from being available need to be repealed. The determination of our destiny needs to be placed in our hands, and in those unthinkable cases where something happens when no one can know the wishes of the victim, they must be left up to the families and the civil courts to hammer it out.
Personally I wanted to Die in combat. Since my country decided I was far to valuable as a file clerk... Now I am trapped in this mess we have let our society become. Red tape and regulations reaching into almost every facet of my daily life. The Laws that hold back and interfere with our daily lives and our ability to move about freely need to be repealed so we can live our lives as we see fit. We are so scared something bad is going to happen to us we collectively let the worst thing possible happen in our quest for safety, we became cattle.
No creature on earth is more Safe and beloved as the Milk Cow. From Cradle to Grave the farmer ensures their medical care, he feeds them, he cleans them, if one wanders off and becomes lost he searches for them. Then one day they have outlived their usefulness as a milk cow and he puts them to their final use, Purina, Alpo and Meow Mix or possibly human consumption, but the disposition of the body is completely the farmers decision. That is the life we have designed for our selves looking to the gov't as our Herders.
The Leash is still beeping... How long till the damn thing dies?