new Delhi: Today i.e. 26 February is the death anniversary of Veer Savarkar, a strong nationalist and freedom fighter. His full name is Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Such questions are often asked as to how Savarkar died. So let us tell you today on his death anniversary, some such things related to his death, which are often searched on the internet.
euthanasia
It is generally believed that Veer Savarkar himself had chosen a situation like euthanasia for himself. He died on 26 February 1966. He started fasting a month before that. It is said that due to this fasting, his body became very weak and then he died at the age of 82. In fact, the punishment of Kalapani had a profound effect on his health.
difference between suicide and self-sacrifice
In 1964, two years before his death, Savarkar wrote an article titled ‘Suicide or Surrender’. In this article he clarified his support for euthanasia. He said that there is an important difference between suicide and self-sacrifice. Savarkar had argued about this that a hopeless person ends his life by committing suicide, but when the mission of a person’s life has been completed and the body has become so weak that it is impossible to live, then self-sacrifice to end life. should be said.
Quit eating and drinking medicines too
Savarkar’s autobiography ‘Mera Life imprisonment’ contains many letters written in his last days. One such letter is also in which he has explained euthanasia through many arguments and moments in his life. It is said that Savarkar had stopped taking medicines in his last days. He had also given up eating and drinking. That’s why people say that he had chosen euthanasia for himself.
This is also common
Apart from this, it is also said about Savarkar that when he was being arrested from England and being taken to the ship, he jumped into the sea. After which he swam hungry and thirsty for the next two days and finally reached the coast of France. For this reason he was given the title of Veer. However, Savarkar has clearly written in his autobiography ‘My Life Imprisonment’ on page 457 that the talk of swimming in the sea for several days has been exaggerated. Savarkar wrote in his book, ‘A soldier asked, for how many days and nights you had been swimming in the sea. Then he had told how day and night? Just did not swim even for 10 minutes that the shore had come.