Camilio

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Drions PILL
white wax / 28-5-2020
I LOVE LIFE / LIVE

Dions PILL doesn't exist yet but should be. It is a hypothetical suicide pill. The pill consists of 2 halves, or 2 pills. You take one and have some days to think it over, when you take the second halve you will die peacefully. If you don’t take the second pill, you live on. 

My artwork is celebrating this pill and its “creator” Huib Drion, a former Dutch Supreme Court Judge and professor of civil law and that all the discussion if you are allowed to take your own life, I am suggesting that it will be China again to start making this pill, as this country is full of surprises. One of them is also the COVID-19 virus coming from Wuhan. Yes, it could have been “ created”  or coming to existence in another country or wed market, maybe escaped from a laboratory, I am more surprised that all warming systems and responses where in place, but not reacted to and hence the quick existence of a pandemic.

If governments are asking all humans, not in essential jobs, to stay home, you also have to provide metal help, which, until today is not in place or worked on. So, providing mental help, mental structures, etc. But also give people something “humane” if they want to leave their lives. I would also plea for a sleeping pill that let you sleep through a pandemic like this, and the anxiety and panic it is causing.

The reason nothing humane was offered through humans asked to stay home and opposing lockdowns and evening clocks on them, was and is brought op by politicians who have very busy jobs not stopping to go to work themselves. This is unacceptable to me, which is the same level of unacceptance many have, many politicians, to a positive advice on Drions Pill, the same which were supporting these harsh lockdowns, not supporting humane mental solutions or supporting mental healthcare in general. They don’t care, they don’t know and they don’t have visions. Also, on the advisory boards for this pandemic (in Holland that was #OMT and #RIVM) where not people with an intelligence or profession with human behavioural skills. The “behaviour” of a virus is important to know and research, human behaviour even more so, because they are spreading this virus.