Posted on 01/04/2020 8:05:27 PM PST by Morgana
Terri’s list ping
This isn’t a scenario of a husband wanting insurance money and inheritance ifnhe shuts off the life support. Most of these are not Terri Schiavo scenarios.
Sometimes doctors actually know what they are doing.
That said, i hope she recovers, and/or another hospital steps up and says they will take her as a transfer if necessary.
FReepers I thought this case rang a bell. I posted about it in November.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3794010/posts
The baby doesn’t look like she is in pain in the picture.
Sometimes I think they just want the body parts as with Jahi McMath. Remember her? I met her mom, I knew that story well as I posted it here and met her mom at a pro life convention.
The vultures were swarming over Jahi’s body but her mom would not give in.
I trust no one in the medical world anymore.
or the bed...
A horrible tragedy. Heartbreaking to even read about.
Every time it happens.
Should society commit the necessary assets for every person on life support to stay alive as long the machines can keep them?
Millions die every year who could be extended by modern medicine. Maybe a few weeks or a few months. Maybe even a few years.
It’s a question that should be considered.
Murder
It depends, you do have to be extremely careful who to trust. if its a lifelong doc, its different than one you don’t know from Adam or Eve.
The bottom line is you have to be in charge of your own care, no one else cares as much if you live or die than you do. Same with your family, especially when they can’t do it for themselves.
And everything needs to be verified. I have known people that have had to prevent nurses and docs doing things to theirkids that would have killed them, because they got dosages wrong, or they did not know their treatment would have a different effect than the parent did.
I read that this baby is septic, and goes into cardiac arrest 3 times per day that requires them to resuscitate her. No children’s hospital will accept her because there is no magic cure for her. The only reason she probably is not suffering is because she is sedated and intubated.
This is outrageous. Let the child die “ naturally” without heroic Measures just because we now have all kinds of medical technology that can technically keep a person alive doesn’t mean that all these cases are right to life cases
At the end of life..hospitals keep people on machines for another year for the money they make..that’s the biggest cost of our medical care.and it’s not like the person is even there to be w family.
This baby is not even stable, crashes constantly. The hospital,in this case, wants to turn off support but mom cannot accept it.
I’m a nurse and I’ve seen cases where the family refuses to accept the inevitable fact that their loved one is terminal.
I took care of a young woman who had suffered a cardiac arrest after discontinuing dialysis voluntarily. She persisted in a vegetative condition. The family just couldn’t come to accept the fact that she was never going to recover. Finally the nephroligist stopped the dialysis.
She suffered so much during the 6 months I took care of her. I felt so bad for her and her family.
How exactly was this patient suffering if she was in a "vegetative" condition, as you put it? How can any person in the sub-animal state you describe feel any pain or anguish?
That is because she is sedated and given meds to keep her paralyzed. She pulls at the tubes and wires otherwise. Diagnosed with Ebstein’s anomaly (heart malformation), chronic lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension. Simple functions such as nursing staff moving her to prevent bed sores or changing her diaper can send her into respiratory arrest.
What an evil law.
Being taken off of artificial means after so long is murder?
They’re not starving the child.
Murder?
More like nature.
The world didn’t always have the means to keep people who would naturally die, alive for years and years and years.
It's a decision that every family in these circumstances considers as carefully as any decision can be considered, and the decision should be theirs.
Well your opinion is good enough for me :)
Seriously, pain or not isn’t the biggest issue.
If they take her off support and she lives THEN it becomes an issue of murder if they decide to starve her.
Not every decision is murder.
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