Here she is at her prom.
Posted on 09/24/2016 2:35:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
Jerika Bolen, a 14-year-old girl with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, has been allowed to end her life— her own decision—by having her ventilator disconnected. She died Thursday.
Jerika had told her mother that her chronic pain, along with her very significant physical limitations (including relying on a power wheelchair), made her welcome the idea of death.
Jerika clearly was no coward. She had endured more than 30 surgeries for her condition since being diagnosed at eight months of age. Her family made it possible for her to enjoy movies, fireworks, sleepovers and a community-wide “last dance” prom this summer, before her ventilator was turned off.
I am certain Jerika suffered greatly during her inspiring life and I am certain her family endured untold psychological pain, alongside their daughter’s mental and physical anguish. And, yet, I believe that they erred in collaborating in her ending her life.
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Charles Krauthammer is on a ventilator and in a wheelchair.
“No suicide here. She wasn’t able to breathe on her own.”
I agree. It wasn’t suicide.
Exactly so let him judge not all the self righteous activists on both sides.
He can chose to turn it off too; and he just MIGHT if Trump wins. ;)
In the Bible, The Judge Samson killed himself, and a huge number of Philistines, and later on in another book of the Bible he is mentioned in a list of heroes. He made it to Heaven and committed suicide. Not unforgivable. Denying Jesus is unforgivable. Dying without accepting His offer of forgiveness. She was a young girl and God takes everything into account. In the end, none of us have any idea what happened to her as it wasn’t our call.
Will you please document your basis for your assertion? There’s no basis for this in Scripture.
That could happen. LOL!
Did I miss the part where you *pinged* everyone else that said exactly what I did? I counted at least a dozen others; don’t be leaving them out! :)
Here she is at her prom.
Amen. His will be done.
No I think only you mentioned Trump might push Kraut over the edge which was funny and I acknowledged it. :-)
I still stand by my original statement about a 14 year old’s ability to make a considered decision to end their life.
May God have mercy on you by not requiring you to suffer as she did.
Fools charge in where angels fear to tread was never more applicable.
Can’t be, she’s “fake alive” according to others on this thread.
Physical age rarely reflects spiritual age. And constant suffering makes people grow far beyond their years.
In any event, no one should be forced to live as she had to. There is no such thing as Christ without compassion.
No doubt Joseph Goebbels did the same with his children.
Yeah. I guess it is sort of young, but I wouldn’t want to make that choice, or have my PARENTS have to make that choice for me. I’m assuming THEY had to give the OK in the end.
And...I didn’t want them to miss the Krauthammer joke we made! :)
30 surgeries is torture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe
Continuing to act as a priest, Kolbe was subjected to violent harassment, including beating and lashings, and once had to be smuggled to a prison hospital by friendly inmates.[2][16] At the end of July 1941, three prisoners disappeared from the camp, prompting SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, the deputy camp commander, to pick 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts. When one of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, “My wife! My children!”, Kolbe volunteered to take his place.[8]
Kolbe’s recognition as a Christian martyr also created some controversy within the Catholic Church.[22] While his ultimate self-sacrifice of his life was most certainly considered saintly and heroic, he was not killed strictly speaking out of odium fidei (hatred of the faith), but as the result of an act of Christian charity. Pope Paul VI himself had recognized this distinction at his beatification by naming him a Confessor and giving him the unofficial title “martyr of charity”. Pope John Paul II, however, when deciding to canonize him, overruled the commission he had established (which agreed with the earlier assessment of heroic charity), wishing to make the point that the systematic hatred of (whole categories of) humanity propagated by the Nazi regime was in itself inherently an act of hatred of religious (Christian) faith, meaning Kolbe’s death equated to martyrdom.[22]
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
More precisely, the ‘unforgivable sin’ is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Mark 3:28-29 King James Version
28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:29But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
I am totally against euthanasia, but I am not sure that’s what this was. I think you are right.
I agree that the activists need to stay out of it. This is a personal tragedy for the family to handle. It was tragic either way. Forcing someone to live in pain seems like a sadistic, cruel, and selfish act compared to the painful choice they made.
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