"Yes, you can argue all of those situations but the patient would also have to be mentally and physically incapacitated. AND there would have to be no hope of recovery. AND the person would have had a normal life prior to the above circumstances just as a person who took the time to create a living will would have had a normal life."
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S 2228 Page 16 and 17, posted 8/28/2000
14 (9) "Life-prolonging procedure" means any medical
15 procedure, treatment, or intervention, including artificially
16 provided sustenance and hydration, which sustains, restores,
17 or supplants a spontaneous vital function.
This affords them the leeway to kill anyone they deem unfit to live, regardless of terminal/non-terminal status.
Funny, the 'death cultists' seem to think it's okay.
Until it's someone they love.
Funny, the 'death cultists' seem to think it's okay. Until it's someone they love.Funny, when I was fourteen my father died of a massive heart attack. I watched it occur; even tried to resuscitate him. Later the doctors told my mother if they had revived his heart he would've been a vegetable for the rest of his days. The situation Terri Shiavo lost herself in.
If my father had lived, he would've been trapped in a vegetative shell. All the things which made his life worth living denied him. Anything he'd try to communicate to his family, that is if he could remember anything, a source of frustration due to the captivity. If we, his family who loved him dearly, had to make the choice we would never have allowed him to live that way. We would have made the exact same decision Michael Shiavo made.
No one wants to let go. But sometimes it's the most compassionate choice.
Culture of death as opposed to a culture of life?...it makes as much sense as saying the nighttime is in an eternal struggle against the day.