Last evening while making our journey to Assam Valley School, I saw an ambulance. Every time I see an ambulance passing by, I just pray to god that the person inside it dies if his condition is very critical. If he is not fit to live, then his life will only bring him more pain, suffering and agony. It is better to die, than to live a life that is not worth living. This is the sentiment behind euthanasia, this is what we really wish, this is what reality is and this is why we take our stand here.
Good morning respected judges, members of the proposition and opposition and to each and every one present here, today we not only take a stand here, but we take a stand here for a cause for we firmly believe Euthanasia is always justified.
Ladies and gentleman, what actually is euthanasia? World Health Organization defines euthanasia as the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. I solemnly have just one question that I would like to put forward in front of this house today, what is wrong with legalizing euthanasia? No I do not want irrelevant, insensitive remarks which I am sure my worthy opponents are going to put forward just for the sake of debating, but what I want is that this argument to be based on what is just, both morally and legally. Ladies and gentleman, we are not from Venus, we are not from mars, we are from planet earth and we are humans. And as a human it hurts me to see a helpless person dyeing a long, slow painful death. He has been bestowed all kinds of rights by the government but that very person does not have the right to his own will.
Ladies and gentleman what we the members of the proposition basically believe that voluntary death, killing a person suffering from a terminal illness, i.e. a disease which does not have a cure and is certain to result in slow pain full death, and in serious non-relievable pain and suffering is no matter what justified.