This is one of those cases where the judge is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
I understand the position of the parents and can empathize with their desires for their child.
OTOH, if he’s in an unrecoverable state then let nature take its course.
Glad I don’t have to decide this.
Right. Much as we instinctively recognize that human life cannot have a price put on it, modern medicine has moved us to a point where patients with medical conditions that cannot be cured end up in a state where they can be “treated” indefinitely. This dilemma gets magnified when you have a government-run health care system where all of these decisions are made by bureaucrats instead of doctors.
I think the parents should decide, not a judge.
That’s what happened with Karen Ann Quinlin but in reverse.
The parents wanted to pull the plug.
The courts wouldn’t let them based on what the Drs. wanted.
The parents finally succeeded with the NJ Supreme Court.
The plug was pulled.
Karen lived another 9 years.
Turns out, God was in charge.
I personally know many people who doctors said were “unrecoverable,” and know of many more. Doctors don’t exactly have an unblemished record about this sort of thing.
Their child.
Their money.