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Dignity Where Have You Gone?
“Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.”
‒ Hussain Ibn Ali.
Currently, and through time it would seem, humankind has been confronted with the enormity of our impermanence and the supposed value of life. The sense of fate that rifles through our conscience as beings is a drama played out in few other beings that roam, swim, or fly above our little green planet.
I admit there are animals possessing an awareness of their end approaching and take action that allows them the dignity of an end to life, but it is in humans that the consideration and embodiment of an emotional attachment and refusal to accept, or even allow the natural evolution of nature that is death.
Struggling to embrace the last moments of finality, many are unable to accept the ending in any form other than panic or retribution.
With the slow and dismal downward spiral that is the dissolution of life through the current pandemic, it is vital for those remaining that the departure be one of dignity, love and giving, not one of desperation, blame, and distraction.
I had the pleasure of owning a high-end restaurant in London many years ago and the honesty of the above sentiment came to me while serving a regular customer. I had the pleasure of their company for many years in the three…