Which is courage in a terminal disease case? Hanging on to the pain of life or embracing the nothingness of death?
It’s a moral question that I can’t resolve. But then the one who is sick should desire to be courageous. If that is not the case and he just doesn’t want to die or to endure more pain, the morality is totally different.
Then on the part of the care takers. Which act is more helpful? Helping the sick one to let go to move on to the next phase or adding one life line after the other? Like in the case of the sick one, this doesn’t apply if the care takers take this as duty to do anything to keep him alive or as burden to offload as soon possible. In either case, any action is done for the ego of the caretaker and not the benefit of the sick.
Life is full of dilemma s.
My father also went through this stage. Choices to be made are always si tough. The best service one can do to oneself and the other is to rise above personal ego and see life death from a higher vantage.
