Death with dignity or euthanasia

I used to think that laws on death with dignity or euthanasia were matters for the distant future—issues that society would one day confront, but not yet.

Then I began to see news reports of people taking the lives of strangers simply because they “wanted to be executed.” Such stories are both horrifying and profoundly sad. They expose a deep loneliness and despair that our society has failed to address.

When death becomes, for some, the only way to be noticed or to end suffering, something is fundamentally wrong. Instead of waiting for tragedy to force the conversation, we should begin to discuss and establish a humane legal framework that allows people, under strict and compassionate conditions, to choose the manner of their own passing.

Dying with dignity should not be an act of desperation—it should be an expression of humanity itself.