life support, keeping someone alive, why keep them from heaven... food and hydration is another thing...
When is it ‘right’ to employee life support?
As per my will, no extraordinary measures for me, thank you and god bless!
If I am unconscious and there is no reasonable short-term cure or bridge to recovery, let me go.
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My wife and I have an iron clad DNR, No life support, No feeding tubes legal document set up.
So that explains where I stand.
Not completely on subject... People with Alzheimers and other forms of dementia used to hang on around here for many years. More recently we seem to be noticing among people we have known personally that their life expectancy after being diagnosed in this area has gone way down. Many have taken a trip to Oregon and haven’t come back. Supposedly Oregon’s assisted suicide law require the person to be competent to make that decision, but there appears to be some type of loophole.
Just had to go through this with my mom who fell and suffered a brain aneurysm and she was effectively brain dead within an hour.
For the most part her body was fine but she was non-responsive and the part of her brain regulating breathing had been damaged so that she required a breathing machine.
Mom had always wanted to have her life prolonged if need be and I flew down ready to put up a fight to see that through if I had to, but she was effectively gone already and we pulled the breathing machine. She passed 48 hours later.
It was different for my grandmother who had had a stroke and had some cognitive ability but couldn’t swallow. So my uncle had a feeding tube out in and she was with us for another 6 months under steady decline and several nursing homes. With hindsight my uncle isn’t sure he would’ve gone ahead with the feeding tube as her life wasn’t much in that last 6 months but also was happy that he felt he had done all he could to prolong her life.
No easy answers - but we should defend life when we can. That makes it valuable.
When the signed paperwork from the patient is presented to the doctor or the family knows the intentions of the patient. Not sure why anybody would want to watch a family member on machines. That’s cruel and sinful as well as selfish!!!
I’m dealing with end of life issues with a relative and have for years. It’s important to know that what medical professionals consider “life support” is different than what the general public does.
Life support is NOT just being hooked up to a heart/lung machine. They consider intravenous feeding and hydration life support. They want end of life directives that call for no extraordinary measures without specifying what those measures are. That gives them the cover to starve and dehydrate patients to death.
It is God’s decision when we are born and when we die.
Too many people supposedly “brain dead” or in a “vegetative state” have been killed. They were NOT already DEAD.
If a baby in the womb has neural activity DAYS after conception, how can abortion be legal?
“The fetal nervous system — i.e., your baby’s brain and spinal cord — is one of the very first systems to develop. In fact, it’s making big strides before you even know you’re pregnant.”
I’m 100% pro LIFE. ALL lives matter.
Ummm - drastic measures to preserve life take the natural order of things out of it...shouldn’t be anything wrong for someone to request nothing more than nutrition and fluid - even if only what they can ingest by mouth, and maybe something to keep them from suffering.
I had to make this decision for my estranged wife this past September. We were separated, and she had filed for divorce (and was fired by her attorney for lack of communication, one of the major problems in our 18 year marriage). She had a massive hemorrhagic stroke, and had no higher brain function for 5 days. I obviously didn’t make this decision in a vacuum, as I had her brother drive in and we made the decision together - after he saw her, met with the doctor, etc.
She would have been 54 in 11 days.
Toughest decision I’ve ever had to make, bar none.
Putting oneself in the hands of God and surrendering to his plan, should never be a problem. Killing yourself is never OK.
At least that is my opinion.