Imagine there's no ban on euthanasia, it isn't hard to do...

When will we as a society allow people the dignity of ending their own lives when they have a debilitating disease before the disease takes them over? Why not take the opportunity to celebrate someone's life before we send them off on their final journey? It should be a bigger party than even a wedding, because it is a celebration a person's entire life. Think of it: imagine having an "honor event" for someone where the soon-to-be departing is memorialized with speeches and thank-you's and people's meaningful expressions of how he/she/they brought value in their lives. Picture the Kennedy Honors followed by a bar mitveh-like or wedding-level party. And at the end, we fondly send off the departing as we commonly send off the newlyweds as they drive away. Farewell in this new chapter of life. Why should it matter that the chapter of life that stems from the "honor event" is the final chapter? That is the whole reason for the party: to send them off knowing this is the last time anyone will ever get to speak to them again! Then the departing and whomever they want with them in their final minutes are whisked away to that final place - someplace private in the company of a trained physician - and have more goodbyes, these from those closest to the departing, and then the departing is gently put to sleep and then euthanized once a deep-enough level of sleep has been attained as determined by the physician. Following morning, burial. Done. You can even have a tasteful brunch afterward for more reminiscing and reconnecting with family and friends. All that could be planned if people had the right to plan their own lives right up to and including the closing of the final chapter and the book.

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