And the above quote is what I was referring to in my earlier post.
Does not the medical profession make it's own ASSUMPTIONS when they artifically sedate a terminal person and continue to administer care in the name of THEIR oath??? If a loved one KNOWS what the patient would really want - who are these professionals to stop them?
I know MANY care deeply and truly have a calling, so I don't mean to be insulting... I just think that there should be some sort of legal "middle ground," so that people are allowed to make these choices...
Thanks. The horse in the pic is coming next month along with another one. I had to get rid of my other two last year due to a family illness (but one was a Canadian Sport Horse and he is soooo cool).
Not a farm by any stretch.. Just a nice big pasture in need of some lawn ornaments! Goats are really fun, too...
Not negative. I think your concept goes hand in hand with mine... It's a personal goal for me, and not done for others perception - but how you lead your life will influence others opinions...
OK... Call me a goofball but I think it matters. I would hope to be remembered as a good, sometimes crazy person who lived her life with character and integrity and lots of humor. I want my kids to learn by example and hell, it wouldn't hurt to spread a little love around to others....
I meant that in a good way. With my friends, a good Butt Kicking is routinely dished out to anyone who starts getting down in the dumpers. It's an attitude adjustment!
I totally respecting that doctors might not want to get their hands dirty in terms of actually causing a persons death... However, by administering drugs which keep the patient incapicitated as they watch and wait and test, etc... - they are also preventing him from making his own choices. Perhaps the individual would have prefered to be woken up so that he could go home and take matters into his own hands....but he is not given that option...
Well, let's step back a minute and look at it from a really objective perspective. Start with a patient that checks into the hospital for specific treatments, etc. As things progress, oftentimes THE HOSPITAL will administer drugs which artifically incapicate the patient so he is not longer able to speak for himself... Then more and more THINGS are done in accordance with what it feels is necessary.
So, in essence, the hospital has also assumed the same right you are objecting to because they have totally assumed control of his bodily functions and his rights as a human being and, in doing so, you are also making the same deteriminations....
I think that is somehow much worse than letting the loved one decide...
I truly do appreciate your skepticism because it shows you care and that you are a thinker, as opposed to a doer. So I hope you won't be offended when I say this - but I would have gladly reached down and ripped out my heart if it would have spared my husband some of the LONG final indignities he suffered in the name of your oath. He could not speak for himself at that time, and I absolutely felt it was MY OBLIGATION to speak for him.
Again, it's not directed at you...just the other half of the story...
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RE: Euthanasia
And the above quote is what I was referring to in my earlier post.
Does not the medical profession make it's own ASSUMPTIONS when they artifically sedate a terminal person and continue to administer care in the name of THEIR oath??? If a loved one KNOWS what the patient would really want - who are these professionals to stop them?
I know MANY care deeply and truly have a calling, so I don't mean to be insulting... I just think that there should be some sort of legal "middle ground," so that people are allowed to make these choices...