SPOILER AHEAD.
The ending is important to understand. Given the choice to end his life voluntarily, he can now relax and enjoy whatever time he chooses to keep on living despite the paralysis below his neck.
In countries where patients can choose to end what they consider an intolerable existence with a handy pill of some kind, they can sit back and possibly enjoy life again because now they can control the moment of non-existence.
Reminds me of the Zen question: who were you before you were born or even conceived.
My thoughts on this: dying is simply a return to the state of nothingness there was before I was conceived.
Of course others believe in some kind of reincarnation. But that is another matter.
The ending is important to understand. Given the choice to end his life voluntarily, he can now relax and enjoy whatever time he chooses to keep on living despite the paralysis below his neck.
In countries where patients can choose to end what they consider an intolerable existence with a handy pill of some kind, they can sit back and possibly enjoy life again because now they can control the moment of non-existence.
Reminds me of the Zen question: who were you before you were born or even conceived.
My thoughts on this: dying is simply a return to the state of nothingness there was before I was conceived.
Of course others believe in some kind of reincarnation. But that is another matter.