“If I was a dog” by Eva F Dahlgren

June 10, 2025

As soon as it is forced to take a position

Published 2025-06-03 03.00

“If I was a dog. A story about euthanasia” by Eva F Dahlgren

‘It’s awake For you. “It said the serious cancer disease Michels Family members when he told me he wanted euthanasia. “If you want to do it, if you don’t want to do it, it’s up to you.” Michel’s parents and his partner ExpressedWho tells the story, agreed that it was his life and his decision.

A date was determined. Michel received two different medicines for his heart to stop beating. According to Geert it was “really peaceful”.

So the dream of death looks like. To be able to decide for yourself and go to the other side with the help of a doctor. As you can do in the Netherlands, where Michel lived and died.

I read Geerts story in Eva F Dahlgrens Debate book “If I Were A Dog”. The title is a quote from the actress Margareta Sachs who took his life in 1919 to shoot. She had severe asthma and did not stand out, and possibly she prayed Dahlgren’s grandmother at a certain stage to die.

Farmorn is a cumbersome side track in a book that otherwise consists of interviews with proponents of Euthanasia in Sweden and the Netherlands. It’s good in time. Escape Aid is allowed ashore by country, and the discussion also bubbles in Sweden. Aftonbladet recently wrote about 87-year-old Annika Hildebrand That euthanasia had wanted but collected painkillers to die for her own – whatever she did. 2022 brought the economist and the Buddhist monk Björn Natthiko Lindblads Assisted suicide a lot of attention.

There are more Falling and common for them is that they are about people with emerging, strong individuals who say they have lived. The story of them is tidy and good. Eva f Dahlgren contrasts with horror stories about people who are forced to live their last time without being able to swallow or move.

She also records two women who, because of severe, incurable back pain, killed and drown. “In Sweden there is no emergency exit,” she writes. Well, it did. But hanging seems brutal than getting a neat injection from a medical expert.

Yet Dahl limit Sunshine stories about people who had to choose Euthanasia, a strange fear -reserved effect on me. There is something about how well the Netherlands system is produced.

Geert even claims that everyone who enters the hospital, if they are only twenty years old and have pneumonia, have to answer questions about how much treatment they want. For example, do they have to be revived on a cardiac arrest? Some patients touch “upset and panic”, but then the ruthless Geert explains that the discussion must take place. It must be spoken and twisted and alternatives, and then everything is written in the diary.

It matters who you are and in which society and health care system

Here nobody will prevent them from deciding on their fate. I had definitely been one of the panic. All these questions – and just like you are sick! On what grounds should I say yes or no to resuscitation, advanced treatment and at some point euthanasia? Do I have to think of my family members who are sad because of my suffering, the tax money that I cost, that I have become physically disgusting? About the fact that I am old or unable to work and be useful for the state and the business community?

If euthanasia is on the map, I have to take a position. It can be freedom, but it is also a main responsibility to set up a person.

The debate of euthanasia is so Very individualistic. In this way it is logical in societies that are characterized by the liberal idea of a rational, independent subject that is ultimately free past conventions, culture and economy. This ideological figure is so strong that all doubts about euthanasia sanctioned by the state seem somewhat irrational religious. And nobody wants to be, not even Göran Griider As in an article here on the pages, the yes, the yes, against euthanasia. Then, unlike I, he is still a believer.

In fact, there is of course a context for everything, including euthanasia. It matters who you are and in which society and healthcare systems.

The Danish writer Emma Holten In his book “Deficit”, which is a plea to evaluate the view of well -being and care, indicates how a special form of economisie dominates in communities such as ours. It is based on the interest of the lighting in measurability and rationality, where care and reproduction did not fit in. I read in the book of Holten that in 2022 the countries in Europe invested in public services per person in an average of € 1,000 less than before the financial crises in 2008 and 2020. It was a requirement of the EU and the IMF to lower these costs “to give responsibility to the financial markets”.

It should be beautiful and equal

It is therefore under such an economic ideology and in such a small care device, euthanasia must actually be designed and executed. It doesn’t sound like a dream scenario.

And that’s it This specific context that allows me to defend myself when Eva F Dahlgren lives on the fact that the share of old people is increasing in the populations of the rich world. Fewer children are born and we live longer. Of course, these old collection costs. “I don’t want to burden unnecessarily,” she quotes an interviewee, “not so important is my life”.

I want to shout spontaneously: “But I want it! Life at all costs! And kindly give damn trying to kill my beloved old family members for financial reasons!”

At the same time, it is not so attractive to live long with serious illness and dependent on a constant Down Priority Health Sector. Helena -BroerOne of the few fiery debaters against euthanasia, Tells in the magazine Parabol About a 44-year-old woman in Canada who chose euthanasia for her actual will. Sathya Dhara Kovac Led by as. She felt that she could have had a good life for a while if she only had more hours of help. But it was impossible and she could not afford to pay privately.

The lighthouses of Helena Brother Also of a considerable ointment of charges against proponents of euthanasia. It is Goebbels Nazi Euthanasi paganda, fascism and the entire Molevite. There is no doubt that fascism is back in right -wing radical leftovers. Combined with the ideal of the strong individual, only secondary to the economic rules, it is a dangerous cocktail.

But on earth, euthanasia is intended as the opposite of human hostile – it should be a humane way for suffering. It should be beautiful and correct. I am not jealous to prevent pain, which increases helplessness and long -term fear of death. Maybe one day I want to help myself die myself.

Unfortunately, laws are determined by the right to euthanasia in a world that is not very humanistic. In a serious discussion we are not allowed to turn into it.