Recently there was an article about two 45-year-old Belgian deaf twins who discovered they were going blind. Subsequently, they both made a decision to end their lives by medically assisted suicide. Fortunately for them, they lived in Belgium, a country where euthanasia is legal. They said goodbye to their family and went into that eternal slumber that we all eventually face.I couldn't help but feel profoundly sad for both of these men. One reason is that I just don't think the life span of a deaf and blind person is worthless. Also because I don't believe that people that are depressed should be permitted to end their lives. Psychiatrists might help both with therapy and medications, if necessary.The main reason I feel sad for these men is that I saw the movie, The Miracle Worker, about Helen Keller. She actually is famous worldwide as a woman who was simply both deaf and blind who became an author, presenter and political activist, traveling around the globe. If Helen Keller could make a life worth living, why couldn't these two men?I find it hard to believe that challenging medical advances on the market, they couldn't come up with a solution to help their deafness or prevent them from going blind.I recently saw a movie about cochlear implants. The unit have allowed children who were born deaf to hear and become the main hearing world. However, in this movie, they did say these implants aren't as successful in adults. The cochlear implant allows them to listen to but they don't necessarily know very well what they're hearing so they still rely on lip-reading. Because children's brains are still developing, they are more prone to learn to understand and communicate like a hearing person.Let's just assume these men looked into all of the medical likelihood of improving their eyesight and hearing, and there have been none. What options are left for them as deaf and blind people?The issue with cochlear implants and solutions for the deaf is they assume you can see. After all, the deaf world is filled with people who can easily see. Likewise, the blind community is filled with people who can hear. Somebody who is both deaf and blind could have one foot straddling both communities. Yet they might not really be a full member of either world.I started to think about all of the difficulties of somebody who can neither see nor hear. I QUICKLY thought who am I to judge these men on the decision? After all, I'm speaking from the position of privilege. I could see, although not and also I used to manage to. I can hear, albeit with some hearing loss.What kind of life would someone deaf and blind live? What would a day in their life be like? When I think about everything I do every day that a deaf and blind person wouldn't normally have the ability to do, I realize why the twins felt so hopeless. But if Helen Keller read, wrote, graduated from Radcliffe College, and made her life worth living, why couldn't they?What would I do every day if I were within their shoes. These men wouldn't normally be able to work. They might not be self-sufficient and may possibly be institutionalized or at the minimum require a helper using them all or quite often. https://championsleage.review/wiki/Apply_These_6_Secret_Techniques_To_Improve_Blind_Person Their only potential for having any activity within their life would be should they learn Braille so that they could read.I understand that being deaf and blind makes communication with the rest of the world difficult, but if you can read and write, you can find ways of staying in touch with other people. I have no doubt that people would want to read their opinions and also read a book that they wrote about their life experiences and difficulties. In the end, when you think about difficulties they face, you understand how minor your personal problems are.I really do not think badly of these men for quitting on life, but I do believe they had other choices. They could have been examples of two men who triumphed over two of the biggest disadvantages in life. In the end, I am sad about the inspiration these men could have been to many people around the world if they had chosen to keep living. After all, I really believe among our biggest purposes in life would be to inspire others. So long as you have the ability to think, speak and write, you are able to do this. It's important for everybody to remember that.


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