Its a touchy subject to be sure, I think that in th case of youth and children especially, that every measure should be taken to ensure the child survives . . even if it is just for the sake of grieving/desperate parents . . . We don't know if the child is brain damaged or dead nor what chance at survival she has, but does it matter?
I have cared for ppl with diseases like Lou Gehrig's and their body doesn't function properly, but they are there mentally 100%. They can longer feed, ambulate, toilet, or even breath on their own and more. More over they have lost the sbility to voice their own needs or conserns. Their families put them in facilities where the care is minimal at best and so they spend the rest of their lives in horrible isolation and depression. Who is to make the choice for them to stop the respirator? Stop the meals? Do they want to just end their own life rather than spend an unknown amount of years suffering?
Its enough ethics to drive one to apathy and thats what you see all too much of in hospitals it
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I have cared for ppl with diseases like Lou Gehrig's and their body doesn't function properly, but they are there mentally 100%. They can longer feed, ambulate, toilet, or even breath on their own and more. More over they have lost the sbility to voice their own needs or conserns. Their families put them in facilities where the care is minimal at best and so they spend the rest of their lives in horrible isolation and depression. Who is to make the choice for them to stop the respirator? Stop the meals? Do they want to just end their own life rather than spend an unknown amount of years suffering?
Its enough ethics to drive one to apathy and thats what you see all too much of in hospitals it
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