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To: ColdOne

Who is paying for continuing this life support when she is brain dead?!

Just because there exists the technical ability to force a dead body to breathe, doesn’t mean dead people should be kept alive indefinitely.


5 posted on 12/24/2013 3:42:49 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

It’s a complex issue - modern technology has considerably blurred the line between life and death - so who makes the choice and based on what criteria? On the other hand, keeping those life-saving machines occupied by someone who has entered an irreversible state will end up causing others who might need the machines more, to have to wait longer, increasing their odds of entering a “vegetative” state themselves.


6 posted on 12/24/2013 3:49:24 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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7 posted on 12/24/2013 3:49:58 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: Star Traveler; ColdOne; caver; darkwing104
It is not murder in any sense of the word --- religious, legal, or ethical --- to remove a body from such life support as a ventilator, when that body is brain dead. You do not have to ventilate a corpse until it rots off the table.

This is quite different from the situation of a person like Terri Schiavo, who was not brain dead, and not even dying --- no, not even "terminal" --- when they removed her nutrition and hydration. In her case, even though she was breathing on her own and responsive, her husband Michael wanted her gone, for whatever reason of weariness, confused compassion or personal interest (she did have assets he would inherit) --- and when at last she died, she did not die of her "underlying condition," she died of hunger and thirst: starvation and dehydration. That, my friends, was murder.

In the pathetic situation reported on this thread, death has occurred without any hurry-up from powerful others. Burying the dead is also a Work of Mercy.

That is.... if what was reported is true.

12 posted on 12/24/2013 4:12:48 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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To: Star Traveler
Just because there exists the technical ability to force a dead body to breathe, doesn’t mean dead people should be kept alive indefinitely.

No they shouldn't be kept "alive" in perpetuity, but at least let her parents get past Christmas instead of having the ghouls in organ donation drooling over her heart, liver kidneys and eyes.

20 posted on 12/24/2013 5:05:03 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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