Good and truthful love is life, not death

Commentary

Abandonment, solitude, sufferings, depression, and the loss of the meaning of life highlight one of the great dramas faced by modern society: the marginalized life, in loneliness and abandonment, of many elders. Precariousness and dependence are profoundly human circumstances. Agreed. However, without a doubt, the solution to these dramas, including their prevention, lies within families. A family, who loves itself, does not abandon its elderly, its disabled, its most fragile members. Without yielding under pressure, it looks for the most appropriate and dignified feasible solutions involving care, attention, and loving companionships. And demands it to the public authorities and the model of society to the extent that corresponds.

Such a miracle, which does not exist in the animal species, is performed by Love. Thanks to it, we are given the necessary strength, in other words, the many virtues needed. Suppose we believe that sick useless old age justifies ending life in addition to not understanding the innate and inviolable dignity of every human person beyond their usefulness. In that case, we will have lost what is most important: we would be beings incapable of loving, and for that very reason, free-falling into the abyss of dehumanization.