Posted on 07/06/2017 1:36:16 PM PDT by Morgana
Editor's note: "Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He is author of "The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author."
(CNN)One of the most disturbing places I've ever worked was a neonatal intensive care unit. Doctors fought valiantly to keep severely ill infants alive on high-tech machines, but often failed to do so. Babies, at the very beginning of their lives, faced their untimely ends.
The death of innocent newborns poses many questions of fairness and fate. Charlie Gard, the British infant now in the middle of a global political, religious and media maelstrom, is the latest child to draw attention to these questions.
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No easy answer. However it should be noted that the time and resources spent on the hopelessly ill would feed a lot of starving children. Sorry but resources are limited and you can’t always do both. “Heroic” actions are not always wise or ethical.
“time and resources spent on the hopelessly ill” who happen to have deep pockets and/or connections to someone with deep pockets.
Parents who cannot provide for their children shouldn't be procreating.
Of course in this country we reward those irresponsible people with food, housing, welfare. That produces more irresponsible people.
Q:
My nephew was only three months old when he died recently. Is he an angel now, like some people say? I hope so, because that would really comfort us. It's been very hard.
A:My heart goes out to you and your family; almost nothing is more devastating than losing a child, no matter their age. And I want to assure you that God also knows what you’re going through, and He wants to surround you with His love.
No, this little one has not become an angel—because he has become something even greater! Although he was only an infant when he died, the Bible assures us that he is now like Jesus Christ—and Christ is greater than the angels. And this is true for everyone who belonged to Christ and was part of His family on earth, and has now entered Heaven. The Bible says, “We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).
I know you and your family deeply miss this child; death is our final enemy, and only at the end of the present age will Christ’s victory over death be complete. But Heaven is far greater than anything we can fully imagine; if we could glimpse Heaven for only one second, we’d never want our loved ones to leave its glory and return to this sin-filled earth...
So tragic. Charlie Gard is one of the cutest kids ever, looks exactly like the picture of health.
Prayers for him and his family.
Maybe the Brits will ask you to turn his life support switch off.
You seem like the perfect person for that job.
Maybe get a selfie of yourself doing it.
NHS doctors & the British government...”Yep...Little Charlie is a freak....so let’s just kill him and keep feeding some Muslim terrorist killers that reside in, & are living off the British welfare state”!!! Sounds like Hitler and the NAZIs to me!!! Thanks, Queen, Elizabeth & Prime Minister, May!!! Go figure...folks!!!
CNN: What Charlie Gard case teaches us...is that if it were Cecil the Lion we’d care more.
However it should be noted that the time and resources spent on the hopelessly ill would feed a lot of starving children.
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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Perhaps you would like to take the 1.5 million dollars raised by the parents at gunpoint and then smother Charlie.
That way you could feel free to redistribute their finite resources to those who deserve it more... like yourself. Because everybody deserves an Escalade, a pair of Air Jordans, and some big gold necklaces, am I right?
Maybe a new dacha, comrade! Imagine it! Because those Cossacks most assuredly don’t deserve all those rubles!
“CNN: What Charlie Gard case teaches us...is that if it were Cecil the Lion we’d care more.”
DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!! No more phone calls please.
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