Letting Dylan Go

The Denver Post ^ | December 18, 2005 | Kevin Simpson

[Lesforlife]

Another Terri murder. The Denver Post allowed to chronicle this disabled boy's starvation murder as long as they didn't publish until the killing was over!! Brought to you by the state that began the abortion holocaust - the Death State - Colorado.

[sr4402]

"What you do to the least of these, you do unto Me"

[Eagles Talon IV]

Heartbreaking. If there is a way to determine for sure that this child was in the pain he appeared to have been in by the description, I believe he should have been allowed to die but not in this way. Prolonging the dying process by 24 days seems meaningless given the ultimate result was assured.

If there were ever a case for an assisted death, this was it.

[Blueflag]

I am so conflicted by this.

I thank God I do not have to deal with this predicament. To me there is no question they loved their son, and still do. Did they make a wise choice or a sinful one? a spiritual or secular choice? A willful death, but is this murder? Obviously they valued his life, and human life in general as witnessed by their struggle. But was this 'right' in any light of God's truth? I lack the wisdom to know. Does this open a 'pandora's box even further? Absolutely. We are not God.

Don't flame me, please.

1 Cor 10:13 offers me guidance -- that there is no choice in life I will face that requires me to sin -- but not yet resolution.

Wow. Points to ponder, Wisdom to gain.

[justshutupandtakeit]

So you vote for torturing the poor child as long as possible.

[wbill]

No flames. But I think that this is a question that will be faced more and more as Medical Technology improves.

20 years ago, I think that assisted suicide (or 'unplugging', or whatever it's called) in cases like this would not have even been a question, as the patient would not have survived.

My heart goes out to the parents, as I'm sure that they faced the most difficult decision of their lives.

[Paradox]

Honestly, I'd rather someone put me to sleep before they let me starve to death.

[zek157]

God forbid any of us go through this and have to make a similar decision. They had the decency to do it at home in private instead of making a media spectical. Tough personal choice.

[billbears]

Indeed. My prayers for this family. They had a difficult decision to make, they consulted a pastor, and made a decision that while tough for them, means this little boy is right now in the loving arms of God. It is not murder, it was a family decision to release him from his pain. And the evidence from the five years he was on this earth shows he touched a lot of people. This story will touch even more and remind us that not even tomorrow is promised to us.

[Old Professer]

Whether playing House or playing God, the game defines the players until the game is done.

[Old Professer]

Is death then a democratic process?

[Lesforlife]

Dylan wasn't dying until his parents starved him - as such it is
murder, with the blessing of their wicked pastor! The floodgates
are open!

When you are inconvenient to some relatives, watch out. Your
words may come back to haunt you.

[Sisku Hanne]

24 days. Those poor grandparents.
I could barely contain the urge to vomit while reading this story. If he was a sick dog they would have put him down a lot faster and more humanely. If they really had conviction that he was better off dead, why didn't they administer something to do the job quickly and painlessly? Instead, "they were waiting for his decision on the time to leave". Death by "benign neglect". I hope at least they are honest enough take full personal responsibility for their actions.

[billbears]

No but it's a decision for the family and not 537 pandering hacks in Washington DC

[Theodore R.]

Honestly, I'd rather someone put me to sleep before they let me starve to death.

This is the statement every liberal is waiting to hear! It would mean the continued corruption of the medical system though it "makes sense" from a practical standpoint in certain cases.

[beachn4fun]

If people would allow for assistance in "putting us to sleep" (or some people call it assisted suicide) people wouldn't have to starve to death.

I hope that day comes way before (if) I'm ever in need!

[ichabod1]

"Dylan, it's OK if you want to go," he said. "I don't want you hanging on for me."

"We never thought we'd have to say, 'Yes, let's discontinue feeding our son,"'

Killers.

[Rakkasan1]

the Schiavo fiasco could have been avoided with a planning and a living will with specifics detailed. hard to argue that it would apply here.tough to plan your future in the womb.
there's no reason for people to be in pain with advances in medicine and medical technology pain can be medicated.

[Spiff]

Isn't the starvation murder of a disabled child beautiful? This story was so heartwarming, all the child killers surrounding the child in his angelic death throes. As I said with Terry Schiavo, why not just put a gun to the base of his skull and put a bullet in him? It would have been far more quick and humane but quite a bit more messy and it would have denied the killers the ability to pretend that they were doing anything different than murdering the boy.

[ichabod1]

I believe every starvation is torture, and indeed it HAS opened Pandora's box to the elimination of the merely inconvenient.