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October 2009 
What does it feel like to breathe?
Posted on Jul 6th, 2009
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jagadish
jagadish
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 06, 2009:
...let me play a ' kill-joy ' for a moment !!...i know that the future posts which follows will be in the same tone " great to feel breathing blah blah blah etc etc !..."so here's my cynical twist to the question which atleast some would agree with ......A day merely survived breathing is no cause for celebration ...!!
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Wot no cake and candles and pressie?
Actually I'm not sure what you mean Jagadish…could you elaborate please?
J x
I think I understand Jagadish. Breath is life, we can just mark time or live life fully, it's a gift we should appreciate and value?
Hi Jon ,
…i intutively knew yours will be the first & immediate response to my post ( considering the tone ! ) and lo ! you proved it right !!…thank you !!
…now coming to the topic, let me analyse the same in the backdrop of human relationships …i feel that any relationship sustain & survive on the acts of ” give & take ” among them …as long it's there , fine …but if for some obvious reason one of the parties gets reduced to a mere vegetable existence the ' act of giving ' comes to a naught and there will only be ' the act of taking '… in such eventuality the relationship starts gradually deteriorating and one fine day it snaps and the parties concerned start looking forward to the early departure of the victim..now tell me in such cases is there any meaning to the existence ?…should anybody feel like celebrating ?…probably it’s the reason why our elders’ constant prayer used to be for
Anaayaasena maranam & vinaa dainyena jivanam ( crudely translated it means—an unproblematic/ effortless death & living without disgrace )
-jagadish
…thank you Zephyr for your succinct & insightful comment ..i think you will understand me better if you go thro' my reply to Jon…
hugs & love ,
-jagadish
ps: …for one of my post you have responded with a beautiful poem and i have yet to reply to it …it's very much in my mind and i shall get back to you shortly …
Still don't follow ya J-babe….if my son went into a coma, I may come to want an end to his breathing but this is an extreme circumstance rather than the general run of things….maybe this is a familiar situation to you personally?
In respect, Jon xx
are you talking about the choice to pull the plug on somebody who cannot live without a respirator? It may not the person's choice –they are being kept “alive”, but really they are just being prevented from dying. Today's question could not be answered by someone unable to breathe on their own. Or am I misunderstanding what you wrote.? We can only guess what the person on a respirator thinks about breathing, and we really cannot know about “vegetative state” firsthand.
I am sorry if this is a personal situation to you.
….thank you Jon and mimi for the response…let me come out straight…both my Father and Mother were very pious ,humble & very healthy souls …but their end was tragic -my Father died in eighties after sinking into coma for nearly a month & my Mother died of terminal cancer struggling to survive for nearly a year …her life and our life, watching her crying profusely unable to bear the excruciating pain , was, to put it mildly-hellish !…the tragedy, so to say , in both the cases was , both of them despite unbearable pain wanted to & longing to live for many more years !!..
….Thank You Jon & mimi , you have touched and tugged a fine chord somewhere in me making me re-live those moments and relieve myself of the pent up feelings ! …in conclusion i have a small request, a favour to seek from you and my other cyber friends : ' please bless me so that i don't die in a similar way, i would rather love to die in my sleep ..let me go to bed and just miss the next dawn …so noiselessly, voicelessly let me breeze out into oblivion ….’
…let me wind up my ‘sissy-tale ‘- : )…with what Sir Thomas More says in A Man For All Seasons …“I do none harm, I say none harm, I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live.”
Love & hugs
-jagadish
Jagadish, have just read your explanation, so sorry to hear this, with proper modern medecine no one should have to die in terrible pain, here people are admitted to a hospice and given adequate pain control.and things have much imroved in the care of the terminally ill. I wondered if you have hospice care and found this link for you. A worthy cause to support, as I support ours here
http://www.eolc-observatory.net/global/india.htm .
…thank you dear Zephyr for the information and concern …it was a case of ' memory being more indelible than ink !!…thank you once again dear …
hugs
-jagadish