The one in one hundred chance comes up one in one hundred times. Hope should not be too quickly abandoned. Exactly!
1 posted on
05/14/2011 10:42:08 AM PDT by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; Salvation; 8mmMauser
Pro-Life Ping
2 posted on
05/14/2011 10:43:15 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun
Ping
3 posted on
05/14/2011 10:43:47 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on
05/14/2011 10:44:29 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Decisions that wanted further treatment is “futile” should not be made by the doctors or hospital bioethicists or social workers. Rather, they require strong checks and balances and decision by rule of law. If the wanted treatment is clearly so burdensome to the patient (not the medical team or hospital finances) that it should be stopped, that is a decision to be made in open courts with rights of cross examination and appeal.
5 posted on
05/14/2011 10:51:51 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Obama's "Gutsy Decision": Who's gonna tell the fool that he ain't cool?)
To: wagglebee
While there is life, there is hope.
7 posted on
05/14/2011 10:56:10 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: wagglebee
Eventually this has to become an issue of who is paying for the care. If the person's personal funds are being used then there should be no interference with the families or the persons wishes. If insurance or public funds are used the cost becomes an issue and someone outside the family will decide..
To: wagglebee
1. There is a tendency to give up way too early on patients who have serious brain trauma. I think that is in part to the bioethical meme that rejects human exceptionalism, accepts the so-called “quality of life” ethic that presumes people with catastrophic cognitive traumas have lower moral worth, and indeed as some hold, are mere human “non persons.”This "meme" is what is used in order to essentially kill someone legally. And it's been widely accepted because it comes from the medical community. This basically confirms the discussion from yesterday's thread.
9 posted on
05/14/2011 11:38:10 AM PDT by
Outlaw Woman
("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
To: wagglebee
What if she hadn’t recovered? I’m getting tired of the assumption that the only justification for not killing the patient is the hope that he/she will recover. What ever happened to treating people humanely even if they had a permanent disability or terminal condition?
10 posted on
05/14/2011 11:43:29 AM PDT by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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36 posted on
05/15/2011 10:56:24 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
37 posted on
06/02/2011 8:46:02 PM PDT by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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