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tale 103 the same right for everyone Written by
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The same right for everyone With many primitive peoples, the
old, the weak or the sick leave the group, or they are left behind, sometimes
also expelled. Only with those? In modern industrialized countries, there are
homes for old people, special hospitals or institutions. Many inmates are
visited once a month, others not at all. One society cannot afford to have a
block on its leg because the struggle for existence is too tough, the other
does not want to allow herself to do so because she believes that she will
then be left behind in competition with others. Who else could be expected to
sacrifice their lives for others without any reward? But there is one big
difference. With the first, you don't have to explain why you want to die,
you just go. He lit half a cigarette butt and
took a sip of the cheap wine that made his brain somersault again. He had already dropped out of society
for a long time, was still doing it as long as he had the feeling that it
wasn't too much for him or that he didn’t have to fight too hard for it. But
now, he didn't want it anymore and had withdrawn to a part of the forest in
which nobody ever got lost. And he had not told anybody. Nobody would have
cared anyway. He had simply walked out of town, then down a muddy road, later
into the woods and into the thicket. Another sip from the plastic
bottle against the cold and again a mental somersault. Images from his childhood came
up. Often there was nothing to eat, so the old bread was coated with a little
fat and briefly put in the oven. It was better on December twenty-sixth
because the Christians distributed among the poor what they had not eaten
themselves. He liked going to school, not because he liked the classes, the
teachers or his classmates, but because it was reasonably warm and clean
there. He finished school with a mediocre certificate. However, there were no
opportunities for advanced education. Both his mother and father were heavy
drinkers, so our main character had to earn his own living, which was nearly
impossible with the low pay of an apprentice. He rented a room in a workers'
dorm to get out of the dirty family home. Later he met Maria, a joyful girl. However,
even she could not arouse in him the ambition to learn a trade and start a
family, or maybe she did not love him enough. Although he actually hated
alcohol because he had seen what it had done to his parents, he found himself
in the pub more and more often. And like that, slowly he slipped, lost his
job, where at first they were actually quite satisfied with him. When he could no longer pay for
the room and found himself on the street, his alcohol problem only got worse
because almost everyone drank around him to deal with the condition of a
homeless and the cold. Bad nutrition, the weather and excessive alcohol
consumption then destroyed the rest of the resilience and self-esteem. When
he was found, all that was left of him were his clothes, bones and a bit of
wine in the plastic bottle. At least he had chosen the place and time of his
death himself. |
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