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Recently there was articles about two 45-year-old Belgian deaf twins who discovered they were going blind. Subsequently, they both decided to end their lives by medically assisted suicide. Fortunately for them, they lived in Belgium, a country where euthanasia is legal. They said goodbye with their family and went into that eternal slumber that we all eventually face.I couldn't help but feel profoundly sad for these two men. One reason is that I simply don't think the life of a deaf and blind person is worthless. http://isms.pk/members/lacekick66/activity/2025880/ Also because I don't believe that people who 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 is famous worldwide as a woman who was both deaf and blind who became an author, public speaker and political activist, traveling around the world. If Helen Keller could make a life worth living, why couldn't these two men?I find it hard to trust that with all of the medical advances out there, they couldn't come up with a solution to help their deafness or prevent them from going blind.Not long ago i saw a movie about cochlear implants. These devices have allowed children who have been born deaf to hear and be portion of the 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 understand 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 such as a hearing person.Let's just assume these men looked into all 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. In the end, 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 would have one foot straddling both communities. Yet they would not really be considered 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 am speaking from a position of privilege. I could see, although not along with I used to have the ability to. I can hear, albeit with some hearing loss.What sort of life would someone deaf and blind live? What would each day in their life be like? When I think about everything I do on a daily basis that a deaf and blind person would not be able 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 could not be self-sufficient and would probably be institutionalized or at least require a helper using them all or quite often. Their only potential for having any activity within their life would be should they learn Braille so that they could read.I know that being deaf and blind makes communication with all of those other world difficult, but when you can read and write, you can find ways of residing in touch with other people. I've no doubt that people would like to read their opinions and also read a book that they wrote about their life experiences and difficulties. In the end, when you think of difficulties they face, you understand how minor your own problems are.I really do not think badly of the men for quitting on life, but I really do believe that they had other choices. They could have been types of two men who triumphed over two of the largest 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 one of our biggest purposes in life is to inspire others. So long as you have the ability to think, speak and write, you can certainly do this. It's important for everyone to remember that.