Thanks for posting this. One just never knows how God will work things out. What strikes me is the doctors tone, the "I am for sure, absolutely, 100%, etc.... that he will never recover. How can he be 100% sure? Doctors do not know everything. I have no problem with him giving his medical OPINION, but that is all it is.
The neurologist, who is a member of the board of directors of the Choice in Dying Society, worries how modern medicine offers a great potential for prolonging a dehumanizing existence for the patient.
"…The United States has thousands or tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states; nobody knows for sure exactly how many," Cranford wrote in a 1997 Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion piece titled: When a feeding tube borders on the barbaric. (WorldNetDaily. Com, March 23, 2005). "But before long, this country will have several million patients with Alzheimer’s dementia. The challenges and costs of maintaining vegetative state patients will pale in comparison to the problems presented by Alzheimer’s disease.
"The answer, he suggested, was physician-assisted suicide."
Cranford blames the medical profession for society’s rush toward physician-assisted suicide…"our archaic responses to pain and suffering; our failure to accept death as a reality and an inevitable outcome of life; our inability to be realistic and humane in treating irreversibly ill people. All of this has shaken the public’s confidence in the medical profession."
He blames "right-to-lifers" and "disability groups" for discouraging families from making the choice for euthanasia.
http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover040405.htm
ditto.
You are correct, that is why it is GOD who should decide when a person is to be taken home, NOT some man, with dubious motives and even more dubious hearsay backing. Terri Schiavo was MURDERED period.!!
Exactly. The ones who claim they absolutely know and have all the answers are the ones people should stay away from--they are quacks!