A dignified life includes a death of dignity. If everything in life must be subject to your conscious choice, then so must be your death. Death is not something that we should ever leave to chance. Choice must not lie only in extending life, choice must lie also in ending life. That decision cannot be made in a moment of desperation or despondency. Let your life be high and let your death be an equal to your life.
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Questioner: We know that currently the Earth is overpopulated. People around me very loosely say that the people who are physically, mentally, or economically not so well off, they are better off dead. So, I want to ask, what is your take on this? And what do you think is the reason for such insensitivity?
Acharya Prashant: Basic lack of love towards life, which is consciousness, what else? This question should be accompanied by the query how do people manage to kill so many animals for flesh every day? Billions of animals every day! And someone who gleefully gloats over animal flesh and stuffs it in, how far is he from demanding that all the disabled, and the poor, and the destitute people be simply jettisoned?
We are cruel people. We are very animalistic and if we can’t see that, that’s just because of our animalism, that’s the problem, right? The more animalistic you are, the less you see that you are an animal. And we are doing that every day and we call ourselves cultured and civilized and what not. And look at the way these trucks and carriers full of chicken and goats, and lambs, they weave through our cities. So many times, your own vehicle would have stopped behind one of those vehicles that carry those small cells in which chicken are stashed, have you seen one of them? And you would have seen those birds and you would have just gone on, continued with your day; that’s the kind of people we are.
