[Graymatter]

>>If you were an emergency dispatcher and you had one ambulace available to dispatch but you got two calls at the same time, one for someone who was probably dead and one for someone who might still be alive, to which call would you dispatch the ambulance?

I'll bite. Who died to keep Terri alive?

[The Other Harry]

I'll bite. Who died to keep Terri alive?

Bite hard.

It is close to impossibe to prove any specific instance, but let me assure you that there are only so many resources to go around. They get allocated on various bases. They aren't always logical.

As of now, Terri has that room. Maybe she wants it, maybe she doesn't. We don't know. We do know that someone else needs it.

In the EMT training I have been taking, they hint around that sometimes it is better to let someone die. This is not the sort of thing they would ever admit to or that would ever show up in a book. It is, however, a fact.

You know what triage is?

If you don't know, you don't want to know. It involves saving lives. It isn't particularly pretty. You sort bodies according to their chances. Their apparent chances. Your best guess at the time and under the circumstances.

This is not just done in war.