Posted on 03/15/2011 8:10:00 AM PDT by julieee
Baby Joseph Will Have Tracheotomy by the End of the Week
St. Louis, MO -- Doctors at the Catholic hospital in Missouri that agreed to take Baby Joseph Maraachli, the 14-year-old Canadian infant who was denied the medical procedure in his country, say they will do a tracheotomy by the end of the week.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/15/baby-joseph-will-have-tracheotomy-by-the-end-of-the-week/
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I think that the real problem we are looking at here in this case is that it isn’t whether the procedure would help or not, but whether the parents have a right to determine the best way to treat the child. They understood that the condition was fatal and wanted to have his last days at home. From what I understand, they were even willing to pay for the procedure themselves.
When Obummer care is in full swing in the USA we will be facing the same issues. We will not be able to determine our own treatments even if we are willing to pay for them ourselves. God help us.
No one should be pressured into signing a DNR. It should come from their conscious will and of their own volition.
I have a friend who is 100 and will turn 101 in three months. She has a DNR but that only about as she years ago proclaimed that when death approaches, let it happen. She is done.
She has since lived an additional 8 years and apart from a broken hip and some minor health problems that required hospitalization, she living quite well, with blood pressure better than most over the age 40.
I hope she makes it to her 101st birthday just for the fun of it.
As it should be.
Personally, my friend must know where she is going when she dies and is just trying to put it off.
Or
God wants her to do more work here and he ain’t done with her yet.
I thank God for her.
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