This is a terrible slippery slope...but
Here’s a test, stuff cotton in your ears until you can’t hear a thing. Then, use a small piece of medical tape to tape your eye lids shut. Now sit like that for a couple days.
For someone like myself...the thought of going through life like that...yea, I’d pray for death. I’d beg for death.
With out some form of spacial reference I’d go totally mad inside my own mind. Even thinking of such a thing scares me.
Unable to know who’s watching you, who’s near you, if you were ever truely alone.
You could never take a walk by yourself ever again. You are totally at the mercy of ... everybody and everything.
Really hard for me to criticize what they did. When the idea of facing what they were about to face frightens me so much.
Your emotional reaction to sensory deprivation is nieve and ridiculous. I have known more than a hundred deaf/blind people, members of an international organization for the deaf/blind. They were productive, happy people with lives worth living.
You are deprived of understanding about disability. Does that give you suicidal thoughts?
The fact remains this state sanctioned murder is heinous. By this Drs definition of pain anyone who harbors thoughts of suicide, depression, anxiety, distress or any other uncomfortable sensitivity can be euthenized.
But the thing is that they were not blind yet -- it wasn't complete yet.
If I was in their position, I'd be terrified too -- twice I tried going into a sensory deprivation chamber -- the first time was terrifying, the second was calming, but then I knew I'd come out of it