Originally posted by Raider179
I guess some people don't understand that some of us would rather starve to death than live in that condition.I completely understand the husband wanting to end it for her. My family and myself have all discussed this issue before and all agreed that none of us would want to live in that diminished capacity. That is not life to me. That is called being a burden and that is the last thing any of us would want to be to someone else. That would straight up suck to be in that mental/physical state.
My final question to you all who think the husband is doing the wrong thing is this...If you were in her position/state would you want to be kept alive or allowed to die?
Raider, if the prognosis is 100% negative, give her the painless lethal injection, but do not starve her to death !
The thing is that Dr Gevorkian (the so-labelled "Dr Death"who was put in jail) is not innocent and at the same time he is not a criminal. He did what a good doctor should do - to ease the departure of the suffering terminally ill people.
But besides that there are totally different cases
when comatose people retain the essential functions of the human being. For example,
a comatose woman carries and gives birth to a child.
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=202 In order to be able to do that her brain must have very important areas still intact. But I fear that the ability to see and speak can become for the doctors more important than the ability to carry children, so it's a rare case that a comatose woman was let to survive for ten years. And there are other questions, of course.
If we don't let good doctors (like Gevorkian) to do their mercyful job, don't let husbands to fulfill their wives' wills, would we let lawyers to starve our loved ones to death ?
The intrusion of state into sacred and most delicate affairs of our personal life becomes overmhelming. But is it right ?
You can't defend yourself with the firearm when you are robbed in the street (because the armed cop around the corner is supposed to defend you). When you are terminally ill and in big pain even the good doctor is not allowed to help you in your last wordly decision.
What's next ?
