[Teacher317]

My B-i-L is a neo-natologist. A good and wise man. I can see (fortunately, not yet "have seen") cases where euthanasia might be merciful, but I don't see him making any such determinations on his preemies lightly, or without parental consent. His conscience takes enough damage from the few that he can't save. Intentionally taking one would make him a wreck.

Of course, Lefties probably see nothing wrong with it, since the baby isn't a full 9 months old, yet.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I think there are plenty of doctors and hospitals here that wouldn't go along with euthanasia. There are probably plenty of others that would. But the seed of euthanasia has been planted here, in the minds of average people too.

An old man down the street from me, 85 years old at the time, had some kind of problem that required surgery. After the surgery he was comatose for a few weeks and then, after he came out of the coma, he had a long road to recovery. He was in the hospital over three months. During his worst times, when it didn't seem that he would be making a full recovery or even any kind of recovery, his family approached his doctor about removing life support. The doctor refused, encouraging the family to give the old man some more time.

Three years later, he is vital and active and you would never guess he is 88. He seems at least 20 years younger.

[little jeremiah]

Once medical science gained the knowledge and technical skills to keep the body alive even under the most dangerous and extreme conditions of ill-health or abnormality, the problem of "euthanasia" had to come up.

There's such a thing as too much "heroics" when the body is kept alive solely by machines for a great length of time.

And I am NOT referring to Terri Schindler Schiavo - she is not being "kept alive", the enemies of life want to murder her.

There is something worse than the natural death of the body when it's time has come, and that is the denial of the soul.