Paralyzed bank manager terminally ill with brain cancer fights for her right to die

Daily News ^ | Erica Pearson

[Joseph Harrolds]

Doctors at Long Island’s North Shore Hospital say Grace Sung Eun Lee is competent and made her wishes clear. Woman's parents say removing her from life support would be suicide and condemn her to hell

She is paralyzed from the neck down, tethered to breathing and feeding tubes — but Manhattan bank manager Grace Sung Eun Lee still managed to mouth four words Wednesday.

“I want to die.”

Doctors are trying to honor Lee’s wish, but her devout parents believe that removing the tubes is suicide — a sin that would condemn the 28-year-old to hell.

They’ve gone to court to keep the terminally ill brain-cancer patient on life supprt, turning a heartbreaking family tragedy into a right-to-die legal battle.

The case has put medical ethics and religion on a collision course, with lawyers arguing in two courtrooms while the patient at the center of the fight can do little more than blink her eyes.

“The thought of her dying, my heart tremors, everything goes black,” Grace’s father, prominent Queens pastor the Rev. Manho Lee, pleaded to a judge.

Her mother, Jin-ah Lee, does not believe her always dutiful daughter has given up on life — or that her death is inevitable.

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[goat granny]

agree with you...remove mans intervention and leave it in Gods hands if she so chooses...

[epow]

Hear Ravi Zacharias' perspective on the subject HERE.

Zacharias tried to commit suicide before he became a Christian, and he admits that it's a very difficult issue for Christians to deal with. He isn't dogmatic on the issue, but I gathered from his reply to a questioner in his audience that he definitely leans toward the position that suicide is not the right answer to any problem for a Christian. The crucial question to me is whether or not refusal to accept medical life support in those situations is equivalent to suicide.