FP106 Essay: Euthanasia

Should Euthanasia be legalized?

As to why God retracted his decision of life between 500 to 700 years granted to Abraham & his descendants; reducing human mortality to a maximum of a mere century; is not a question that can be debated or protested upon. It was an honor; in the biblical times when ones duty to replenish the earth is diligently obeyed and deemed completed; to accept humbly when the time has come for the day is done.   With merely one hundred years to live now; nobody is ever ready to die but yet nobody wishes to suffer to survive either. 

Medical academics have sinful hands in going against the will of God.  Attempting to cure the incurable, extending life support and creating false hopes with half baked ideas that yield remote success are acts of the devil in the white coat disguise.  Unscrupulous groups and academics are exploiting the world beneath the integrity of the ‘White Coat’, churning peoples’ hopes into a business model. Claims of breakthroughs have depleted enormous funds in the name of research.  Touching base first, secures royalty of intellectual protection mainly to support the vanity of lavish lifestyle common to the profession. 

Debating Euthanasia surely triggers the mental flip-flop; between the emotional state of the mind and the filtered conscious rationale; that can never find its way out of the fog.  Support for Euthanasia becomes a social stigma; a stand if taken will definitely stain the integrity of a person. Embracing or even worst, having to shoulder the weight of legislating Euthanasia is deemed widely as heartless or back-fired as playing God.

Wealthy people, Royals, prominent head of states have died of incurable diseases despite exhausting unbelievable hefty amounts of money available to them.  The inequity of wealth and influence is so wide between the rich and the average; let alone the poor; that the ordinary man-in-the-street simply does not have the luxury to deal with terminal illness in the face.  To hold on to the very last straws of hope is to literally take the entire family; young and old into burial.

Hospice and palliative care services has found little or no help; no public funding to support the easing of the transition.  As much as they are willed to their noble cause; more than a handful has since wound up in the last two years.  Contradicting to the issue, foundations that are supposedly wired to the mission to save life have seen many pampering their lavish habits helping themselves with public funding.  What used to be the light at the end of the tunnel became subjects of audits due to the greed of man.

As the Serpent has tempted the origin of mankind to eat from the Tree of Knowledge; it has now succeeded in tempting man once again to eat from the Tree of Life. Euthanasia; the slithery term has not only become the serpent’s shield but has intertwined man so tightly to an inescapable struggle.

FP106 Assignment : Conflicts

Q2) Suggest strategies for conflict management.

Conflict can be reduced by intuitive listening and then evaluating the possible emotional impact of our response to our intended receiver each time we interact.  Instead of consciously installing the tiring negative sign; ‘Beware Conflict’ in the fore front of our minds; we make it a habit of putting ourselves in the ‘shoes’ of the receiver.  Whenever we make a suggestion, form an opinion or in some cases, initiating a set of imposing rules; embracing this mindset becomes meaningful for maintaining good relationships.  This is one tough cornerstone that we must rigidly secure when we truly seek success in our career, rapport with our friends and colleges, and harmony with our loved ones.

Majority of private businesses are not transacted solely under rigid rationale that a supplier is one who has the ability to offer the best product.  Service attitude is a crucial factor in an ideal win-win situation.  When we understand and place our concerns genuinely with the client’s issue and do the utmost to resolve that one small hurdle that is sitting between a deal, successes will not be too far away.

There are always competing wants at every level of any company.  From the top partners to the lowest ranking janitors; conflicts are inevitable. People in general put their personal interest in the fore front.  Having good rapport with colleges is essential in any line of work.  Here is one neurological linguistic programming technique. When we make it a habit to adopt subtle physiological mirroring of the person you are engaged in a conversation with; a natural signal will be transmitted.  It carries an unconscious message that says; “I am like you and therefore you can like me”.  This way, conflict will almost always make way for successful interpersonal negotiations.  When practiced often, a person can become so natural that, one day he finds that he will not need to negotiate anymore. No one ever need to negotiate with themselves.

Home is a place that all of us work our life for.  It is a place that we expect to find peace and harmony after an honest day’s work.  Asserting power, having dogmatic views or simply setting curfew hours on our teenage children can only reap conflicting results. If we eliminate our own expectation and look at the situation as if we were in their age; we will realize their inner world is not so different from ours.  Understanding the real underlying problem that may not be apparent at first, will one be able to choose wisely to adopt either a permissive or authoritative approach to resolve a conflicting issue at home. 

 Call it a charisma, leadership quality, a divine gift of power bestowed; this is one powerful tool that one should be equipped with when engaging people in our daily life. But if everything else fails, the best will simply be, to avoid a collision course.