Posted on 03/18/2009 9:51:16 AM PDT by JoeProBono
People with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do everything they can to keep them alive as death approaches, a US study suggests. Researchers followed 345 patients with terminal cancer up until their deaths. Those who regularly prayed were more than three times more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging care than those who relied least on religion. The team's report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It suggests that such care, including resuscitation, may make death more uncomfortable. Just over 30% of those asked agreed with the statement that religion was "the most important thing that keeps you going". The researchers from the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute found these people were the least likely to have filled in a "do not resuscitate" order.
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Translation: Providing universal health care for everyone is going to be expensive. Especially if they insist on receiving every possible life-saving method. The people who will bankrupt the system will be the Christians. Give them dirty looks and don’t let your children play with them. The government will deal with these miscreants in due time.
Awwww! That’s soooo cute.
The `report’ is secularistic bunk. The opposite is true: at least within Christianity, those with the strongest belief are most likely view approaching death with the serene certainty that it is only a transition to a better place in the afterlife.
And yes, Christians will be targeted in the brave new world order.
I’m afraid that’s what it’s going to be coming to. But if it were like that now I wouldn’t be here. I’d be dead.
I lost 1/4 of my left lung but March 9th 2009 made me a three year lung cancer survivor. If I hadn’t believed in God’s miracles I wouldn’t be here. I would have just given up and died three years ago.
But because I do believe, I didn’t just give up lay down and die. And thanks to the good Lord, my surgeon Dr. Ross and the other Dr.’s and nurses at the Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, I’m here today as proof that miracles do happen.
I just loved that!!! How sweet. I wonder what Fido is praying for... extra biscuits?
...Christians ARE targeted in the new world order.
In my own experiences I agree. I had a friend who was keeping the doctors all riled up b/c she said she was ready to go HOME and they couldn’t understand why the 80+ year old gal didn’t want all the cancer treatments for her brain cancer.
Unreal.
Praise the Lord! My mom lost her entire left lung. At least you have some left, which helps greatly with lung capacity.
I think believers have hope that God has work for them and that’s why we hang on and fight but I also believe that when we’ve lived a good life, we can sometimes let God be in control of that. It has a lot to do with one’s age. I mean would we want to do months of chemo and radiation on a 98 year old? Would they want it? They don’t even perform hip/knee replacements on you once you hit a certain age because you likely won’t survive the surgery. Older people usually have many medical problems that often complicate any medical procedures.
True. I’m religious, though not Christian, and I’d rather die with dignity than my final years hooked up to machines and eating/crapping through a plastic tube.
Well duh! Filling in one of those is arguably similar to signing a suicide note. Religious people are not going to do anything that smacks of colluding with their own death.
“The `report is secularistic bunk.”
I’m inclined to agree.
As I was being taken into surgery for a failing heart, I looked into my bride’s eyes and said, “ I’ll be fine dear, as long as my soul is right and my fishing gear is ready”. I wanted to be covered either way. ;>)
Before the surgery I was told that I had no more than 6 months to live. On May 4th of this year, this will have been 2 years ago. I refused to accept my pull date. LOL
Just before I was about to go under, I asked a question of the surgery team, “ I just need to know, does anybody here believe in God?” One of the team touched my hand and said in a calm, soothing and reassuring voice, “Yes, now relax”... seconds later I drifted off.
During surgery I suffered a stroke and contracted MRSA. Instead of being in the hospital for 6 to 8 days, I was there for 2 long and very painful months. Instead of one surgery, they cut into my chest 4 times. It took another 8 months to heal and recover at home.
On my worst days, I thought of what Tony Snow had said, “God didn’t promise us another tomorrow, he promised us an eternity”. I can not tell you how many hundreds of times I thought of those very words... and somehow they comforted me. Why my Bride prayed for me, I prayed for Tony.
I live because of a large group of very good doctors, over a million dollars of medical science ( I’m insured), the strength of my wonderful and loving Bride that stayed by my side each and every day—her unconditional love for me, God’s blessings, my strong desire to see my grandchildren’s eyes again, my extremely strong will to live.... and desire to go fishing and play on my boat.
Had I died, some would have had regrets, I on the other hand, I tried to be ready and tried to be prepared for whatever direction the train was going to run.
So, in my view, be prepared for what comes your way, pray for the best and fight to live with everything you have... never surrender to the dark and the pain, never give in to the flaws of man. And, take comfort in Tony’s words... while God really didn’t promise us another tomorrow, He did promise us an eternity... but hey, you might make it, so have your fishing gear ready.
BTW.. I love that pic.
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