[xzins]

I don't think so. The example they used was of a child that is now THREE years old.

But, it wouldn't matter.

God is the only one who decides between life and death. If we do the right thing and try to help, that baby will not live one second longer nor one second less than God will decide.

Our job is to respond to the "good works that God has prepared ahead of time for us to do."

[Amelia]

God is the only one who decides between life and death.

I agree that He should be. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we aren't "playing God" when we try to use extreme measures to keep someone here when He is trying to call them home.

I don't really know the answer, and I think the answer to each case might be different, and it's always difficult.

[workerbee]

Re #33, you're implying that the clergyman advocates the murder of a 3-yr-old child. That is not the case. I think it boils down to a warning that doctors (and parents) not pretend to be God. "Death with dignity" is not just liberal schlock.

The submission says: "The principle of humility asks that members of the medical profession restrain themselves from claiming greater powers to heal than they can deliver. "It asks that parents restrain themselves from demanding the impossible."