Assisted Dying, a Grandmother's view

Shane Mulhall, a man worth listening to

Assisted dying is on everyone's lips and everyone has a view about it.  When you are over a certain age, dying is definitely something that begins to be on the menu, starters are over, the main course is finished and the waitress is approaching with the final dessert menu!  So, yes, I think about it and we, Grandpa and I think about it.  This is what we think!  The real assistance with dying comes from true compassion and not from sentimentality.  True compassion takes account of every aspect of a person's being, it looks to the welfare of the body and the mind but it's main focus is the real person, the soul.  So, wisdom let's you see that the body and mind might just not be the same as the soul.  Bodies and minds are going to undergo death but the soul maybe doesn't.  Wise people say for sure that the soul absolutely doesn't die and having watched people do the dying, I am sure that it is true.  One moment the soul is there in the body and the next moment it has gone.  It is a good thing if it can go easily and naturally and without any grief or anger or resentment.  If the body and mind are looked after properly, the soul is assisted in it's leaving.  The whole composition of a human being allows some of that parturition to take place anyway.  Things have less hold as you get older, especially the  body which gets less comfortable and moves rather creakily.  Now the mind is where you need the assistance to see that you will be alright, you will be looked after and that if you have fortitude and courage and cheerfulness and especially if you have family around you and good nursing, you can make it to the end with real assistance and there doesn't need to be a law to make it happen well.
There is a man from Ireland coming to give a talk first in Cambridge, then in Wessex on the State of the World.  This man hasn't been well and it isn't likely that he is going to get better.  He absolutely knows that he isn't the body and so with every breath and every moment, he responds to people's questions and invitations to come and speak to them.  His name is Shane Mulhall and he is a Grandpa with wisdom.  You can come and hear him speak too if you are near either Cambridge or Wessex.  If you click on this link, you can register your attendance.  I can tell you it will be worth it no matter what age you are nor what part of the menu of life is the part you are looking at.

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