Question to Freepers here waiting, am I wrong to believe that asking your loved ones to take away your food/water and watch an ugly death, in spite of what the media docs say, is cruelly SELFISH?
The respirator pulling isn't quite as bad, beleiving in God's natural death, but remember in the Bible that talks about the "giving of water?"
Christian belief or not, it (I think) is Selfish and spoiled to ask that of them.?
Sometimes patients whose respirators are pulled start breathing on their own. But even if Terri were to ask for a Coke and a cheeseburger the guards would forbid anyone from giving them to her.
Just this afternoon my mother and I were discussing this subject. She said she'd always thought she would want to be taken off any kind of life support, but now she feels like it would be selfish to ask any of her children to sign off on that and have to live with it.
I'd just wonder what would happen if one year later the medical community came up with a new procedure that could've helped me if I'd been kept alive. How would my loved ones feel if that happened? I figure if God wants to call me home, He'll do it with or without machines. If I'm still alive, it's not my time yet.