Why should everyone die hooked up to a ventilator costing hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Right now, you are encouraging torture.
You do not know what you are talking about. Read the article:
his parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, have asked them to perform a tracheostomy which would enable him to breathe on his own, so that they could take him home. Their daughter died from similar complications eight years ago, but in that case doctors performed a tracheostomy and they were able to take her home.
There would be no ventilator at home, so no hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost. Just a trache. I have patients walk in my office every day with traches without being on vents, breathing normally through the trache tube in their throat and otherwise living normal lives.
That is all this family is asking for their baby. Give him a trache so we can take him off the vent and bring him home, where he will breathe on his own without a vent until he dies a natural death, just like his sister did.
You are the one advocating torture, in refusing to let him die breathing on his own, at home, with his family.
“Justice Rady’s decision was based on doctors’ testimony that he is in a permanent vegetative state with no brain stem reflex.”
I do not believe you are a medical doctor. Please read the above sentance again.
Do you know what loss of brain stem function is?
Please go back to medical school.
The baby needs a ventilator to breathe. Quit fudging the facts.
I might also add,
I would bet a Pediatric pulmonologist and pediatric neurologist in Detroit reviewed his chart.
They did not accept this baby to their hospital.
They know the true story.
We are only hearing one side- the parents.