Posted on 02/18/2005 3:36:08 PM PST by FreeMarket1
Mu uncle was on life support for a couple of months, during the holdiays. He was in a coma. (this was a few years ago.) After the first of the year she told the doctors to go ahead and pull the plug. She said if it was God's will that he live then he would, but she didn't want to tie up support machines that others could be benefiting from and she knew he wouldn't wsant to be a vegetable. Her children were quite young at the time. He had a brain anurism. Sometimes we have to leave things in God's hands.
That's an example of an article trying to mislead you. That statement is NOT about the specific condition the baby is suffering, but about the capabilities the hospital has over a broad range of conditions.
Furthermore, it demonstrates that this clinic has the expertise necessary to make an informed conclusion about the terminal nature of this child's disorder.
Try it sometime... I would never wish something like that on anyone.
Maybe some like to play God, but not me. There are some things that never leave your mind.
I take great offense to your "speculation" that I would enjoy killing a parent. I don't think that you understand.
God gave us the knowledge and skills to treat others. We would be going against God by not using those skills.
You read the comment?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1346341/posts?page=65#65
Thanks
I can't believe you said something so mean and cruel like that to brooklin. Shaking my head in disbelief.
Yes, I did. You are cold and cruel.
I didn't find brooklin's comment appropriate.
Exactly. And these doctors are using those skills to rationally conclude that no more can be done and that this child's life can only be extended artificially and only at the cost of terrible suffering.
Thanks.
How can you say that? He was relating what was certainly a very difficult event in his life. You are just sick.
" It's time to smell the roses."
That didn't seem too empathetic to the thread or situation.
Some have been able to come off the vent make it to early childhood. I don't believe that this is the case for the baby, in particular. If it were the possibility that this baby would be able to come off the vent, that the hospital would do more? Or do you just believe that most medical instiutions want to murder young children?
Every patient reacts to illness differently, what works for one patient, will not work for another. The paragraph you posted is "in general", it simply does not refer to all patients. I'm sorry that I'm not giving you the answer that you are looking for, or perhaps you think that I don't care about this baby, inparticular, and life, in general.
It was hard enough for me to have that "final talk" with my grandmother, and there was no life support involved. So I can only imagine.
Wrong. It was sage advice from someone who has been there. If you don't understand that, then like I said before, get the hell out of this thread.
I'm sorry, but reacting on emotion rather than logic is the hallmark of liberalism.
Liberals are the ones who say "Wouldn't it be worth all the gazillions or the loss of some freedoms, if just one little life could be saved?"
It's for the childrun.
Conservatives recognize that in the real world there is only so much 'other peoples money' to be spent on the seriously ill. Spending the money and manpower to keep this child semi-alive for a dozen years means no money left for thousands of other children that could be helped.
Texas Children's Hospital is one of the premier children's hospitals in the world. It is university and church afilliated. It did not make this decision casually.
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I agree, but I think I'm about to be "eaten" by someone who believes me to be, wither an idiot or a baby-hating, abortionist ogre.
Yes, eventually, you have to decide when enough is enough.
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