[wideawake]

I’m sorry you feel you’be been placed on the Earth to make decisions for others.

Again, the issue here is whether I and others are allowed to make our own moral decision when confronted with a dying child.

Your position leads inevitably to the conclusion that I can be punished if I help an ailing child whom her mother wanted me to leave for dead.

You are the one arguing for the state to compel the moral decisions of others, not I.

[najida]

You keep throwing out these insults to the parents...

Now it’s “Leave for dead”

How does that differ from “Allowing to die and pass into the arms of Jesus”?

[Hi Heels]

This is a tough one that I thought I had an answer to until my daughter STephie was born. With the cord around her neck twice in a true double knot, the oxygen was cut from her brain during the birth process and she suffered irreversable brain damage. Although a complete delight to me the 3 1/2 years that she lived, and a precious gift to her sister, there were very few good days. I watched as her head was torn open by the doctors no less than 12 times for shunt revisions. She ate through a stomach tube, and we had oxygen on the premises at all times. She could communicate very little. A difficult stick, her wrists and arms were cut open repeatedly to allow for IV's. She had pnemonia and was hospitalized most of her life on and off the vent. She had nurses in and out of the house around the clock doing painful procedures such as suction, and injections and physical therapy every single day.

Did I want her to live? Sure I did. I loved her. Did I want her to die? You bet. I prayed for Him to take her.