To where does my life extend, and where does the night begin?
During my years as EMT paramedic, as medical orderly and even more since my wife fell ill, during the decade my wife and often talked about the question "what is 'life' "- and what defines life - what enriches one's own life. And when does twilight embrace the individual - where does the night begin? "To where does my life extend, and where does the night begin?" This is a line of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke: "The Lover" / "Die Liebende" - You will find the English and German poem at the end of this article How does the individual define this 'night' and to what extent each individual wants and can prepare himself internally and externally for it?! And it goes on - to which extent can and should dying be part of a self-determined life and whether the individual person takes a assisted dying, assisted suicide regarding a self-determination dying into account is and should be up to the individual person. When making decision...