Who says life cannot be meaningful at 104?
Just two days ago, a 104-year-old Australian scientist, David Goodall, opted for voluntary euthanasia as he did not find his life meaningful. He flew all the way to a Swiss town to embrace death because euthanasia is not allowed in his country.
But in India, a 104-year-old man on Saturday showed the enthusiasm and zeal to cast his vote, because as a citizen he felt it was his duty to ensure proper governance in Karnataka for the next five years.
The pontiff, dressed in his orange official clothes, went to his local polling booth in Karnataka’s Tumkuru. Not just him, many elderly persons showed great enthusiasm on Saturday throughout Karnataka to cast their votes. In Shimoga, an 87-year-old woman on wheelchair reached the polling booth to cast her vote.
Earlier, during the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections of 2014, Indian’s first voter Shyam Saragn Negi, aged 97, had cast his vote which prompted the Election Commission to make him the face of poll campaign in the tribal area.
