Freedom to live by release of our grip on control

 https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/08/25/covid-what-have-we-learned/#comment-175957 

If you are not careful you will allow your CURRENT thinking to colour the freedoms and choices or rights of others.

I am in favour of the freedom to MY right to issue a Do Not Resuscitate notice on MY medical record - of my own volition. I am not in favour of a euthanasia program to kill off people who are effectively de-personed by being old and dependent - running no doubt under slogans of concern.

This is a very fraught arena - because keeping people alive who are looking for their 'way out' can be a selfish and blind imposition by the 'sympathetic' who mistake their own projections for  compassion or the staff who can be litigated and even imprisoned for relational discretion within the shared experience of both clinical experience and compassionate commitment - if they deviate from legally defined standard of care - which can and very often operate a blind and uncaring mechanism running counter to a human caring relationship - which has 'life; as its root and context, rather than state mandated regulatory instruments of control.

Life is more than serving corporate utility. For some, there is a process of release of 'control' to an inner acceptance while alive. Fear of death can be also seen as fear of loss of face, story, and control. This runs socially as an avoidance of such a process of true acceptance while alive - as if engaging in self-evasive  fear of loss of face set in 'control' is what life is, and only perhaps recognising a deeper quality of love as our being, within the process of release.

Replacement of love of life with systems of control, 'faced' over with slogans of 'concern', and militated by the protections due unto Life! - is a Mass Bubble of unreality set in denial of fears, guilt and hates, and thus ruled by them. 

Without a fundamental basis for communication that inspires trust, there is no basis or capacity to align in life, health, or functional integrative society. People dream of being 'the one in control' and may get a hit out of seeming to have their moment  but it is no substitute for life.

That everything is going 'out of control' is in my view directly as a result of 'over-control'. One taking over a presumption to control any kind of problem, the seeming power cannot then release it. It ratchets up -  rarely down - to generates crisis - or 'end-times' on one level of another.