Refections, a question, and a survey...

[eliacek]

Due to the incredible length of this entry, I've used a whole bunch of lj cuts for the reflection and survey.

Comments

[krealin456]

I had a lecture last semester over pretty much this same issue that you're dealing with. My prof.'s objective was to make his students think about things for themselves, and he succeeded with me. Here are my thoughts. I don't really agree with lifesupport. It is like you are playing God. To stop something life-threatening is interfering with God's plan. However, within the Hippocratic Oath that the doctor takes they are obliged to do EVERTHING that they can to stop the patient from dying. So what do you do now? The patient is alive, but they are a vegetable. Is it okay to just take that life away from them? Even if they can't speak, or move, or even breathe on their own they still have a soul. So if you take them off of lifesupport then it's like you're taking away their soul. Once again you are playing God just like when you put them on the support in the first place. So herein lies the question that is posted to Christians, can you take away the life of something that still has a soul? My opinion that I came up with is

[eliacek]

Man that's heavy. I see your points. I couldn't bear to see someone I loved suffer like that. I know I wouldn't want to.