A friend asked, if my father was comatose on life support
Should I
pull the plug?
What kind of a question is that?
Are they looking for absolution?
Because that will not be found.
To make such decisions about life and death, is to live.
Really live.
It is to remind us that the cycle of life and death churns through the foam of everyday life.
Perhaps Keynes said it best, in the long run, we are all dead.
But how we die is what makes us.
Some might say that we are machines, programmed to wind down and die.
Just like a pneumatic pump.
Like hoisting an engine out of the chassis of a car.
Others believe that we are angels alighting but briefly in these meaty vessels.
These two views not disjoint.
But sometimes, we must choose one or the other.
But
The choice is not fated and
Whatever decision you make, will necessarily be the right one.
And if does not feel like it is,
You must force it into sufficiency.