Happy Deepavali!

Hahaa...Don't really have any close friends to wish this yr for Deepavali. :(
anw, Toa Payoh is unusually quiet today when i went for lunch at a coffeshop with my daddy. I suppose companies had an off day today due to the festival so no one to challenge with for seats. heh heh.
Didnt feel like challenging with the rest of Singapore for space to walk in malls so here i am, at home, enjoying a peaceful afternoon with a cup of coffee...2 cups actually. anw, i think i made the right choice since the clouds are looking pretty glum out there.
Singapore is once again embarking on one of its more ambitious plans now - to approve of euthanasia. Doctors against the approval of euthanasia argue that unfilial children will use it to persuade their parents to choose that option, for whatever disgusting reasons they may have, the most shallow, of course, to save cost. *rolls eyes* how utilitarian. but what makes you think they will not do it w/o the approval of euthanasia? i mean, the means of "getting rid" of them will be different, but the ultimate aim is achieved. in fact, "getting rid" using euthanasia may be more humane than putting those elderly through long term torture or abuse. Of course, do not think that i am saying it is right to get rid of humans so long as the method is deemed humane. My two cents worth is instead of questioning whether we should approve euthanasia or not, target the shallow attitudes of the Unfilial, which i know, will be a mammoth task.
On top of that, arguments include the elderly and the sick may opt for this option as the convenient alternative so as not to be a burden on their family. I'm not really sure how to tackle this problem. It's true afterall that if you have a glimpse of hope to recover, you really shudnt be choosing that route to end your life. euthanasia is suppose to assist us in passing on smoothly, not degrade us to being cowards. I think it will largely depends on the bond enfostered within the family from young; if values encompassing ideas that families will stick with you through thick and thin, and challenge life to the fullest, have been imparted to you, rarely people will opt for that option without delibration, unless the route to recovery is very unbearable. Please dont argue that despite being unbearable, patients still have to endure, 'cos its really hogwash. Some are really unbearable. I've seen my grandma gone through it, and her threshold for pain commands respect. If you insist i am being subjective, well, i aint a professional journalist. This is just my view. A view of a normal university student. :/
Of course, then the view on the other side of the coin is that: if you are called a coward for ending life, you aint one for escaping pain? Philosphers will probably state that emotions are part and parcel of life. Emotions will make up some entity of every human being and the amount of particular emotions will lead us to our unique self. And pain is definitely under the category of emotions. But alas, I am no philosopher and while i dont think it is right to give up life when you have a glimpse of hope, i think you do have a right to choose if the amount of pain you are going through is justified for the percentage of hope given to you to survive, based on the assumption that you are a rationale being. Of course i understand the near-impossibility of every being to be rationale at such a stage hence the roles of families, doctors and counsellors would step up. So what am i?
Call me a semi-coward.