“ whose song you’ve been singing”
I haven’t sung a single word of anyone’s song. My “lyrics” are based upon reasoning for the best interest of the child. And as long the article doesn’t give us enough information to make a calculated decision, and the treatment hasn’t been accomplished and successful anywhere except on the blackboard, and what is left in the mind of the child because of prior damage, if anything, then no one has the right to make any decision at all. But the parents have to make the call as no decision means death anyway. And like I mentioned in previous writing, it is no one’s business where the child is taken for care unless the parent are intent upon premature death. Letting him pass without trying the treatment that we don’t know will work, and what it will leave in the crib if it is tried, is none of anyone’s business except the parents. But this is one tough decision, or maybe a couple of them, I wouldn’t want to make. I did that once with my father. And it was the right one as he was dying painfully. But it never feels good. I can’t imagine two parents giving a vegetable life to their child. I wouldn’t. There’s no pain in death. And if you believe it, just the light.
rwood
"Are there lives that have forfeited their individual legal protection because their continued existence has permanently lost all value for the person himself, and for society as well? Simply posing this question brings up an uneasy feeling in anyone who has become accustomed to evaluating the value of a particular life to both the individual concerned and to society.... If one simultaneously thinks about a battlefield covered with thousands of dead young men, or a mine where a violent thunderstorm has buried alive hundreds of diligent workers, and compares it to an institution for imbeciles with its care for its living inmates, one is deeply shocked by the blatant dissonance between the sacrifice of the greatest treasure of humankind on one hand, and on the other, the greatest care being given to existences that are not only absolutely worthless, but that drag other worthy beings down negative existences ..." (page 27)