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Most hospitals allow brain dead patients to remain on life support for a short period of time as an "adjustment period"
And for the record, a crash C-section can happen within minutes.
Ariel Sharon, as an example, had been brain dead and on life support since 2007 and only died this month. The body's functions can easily be maintained for the 3 or 4 months necessary to give this child a chance at life.
I agree. WTF does God know about death. We are human - we are supreme - we know, even if nature does not.
Ariel wasn't brain dead, only PVS and I still think that was wrong.
Unfathomable? It's what the woman wanted. How is that hard to fathom?No, what is "gruesome and repugnant" is a father and grandparents giving up on a member of their family appropriate of nothing, asking the hospital to suffocate them for unfathomable reasons.
One hopes these folks come to their senses and stop being so horrible and selfish.
Unfathomable? It's what the woman wanted. How is that hard to fathom?
It's what the woman wanted.
There was no written anything.
You have no proof of this claim.
I don't think that this healthy young woman ever thought she'd have an aneurysm at 33 while pregnant.
It's what the woman wanted.
The husband, the woman's parents. Are you suggesting they don't exist?
According to what document she signed?
I don't doubt that - but is it the optimal process or simply a matter of best option under the circumstances?
Having worked in the medical field for over thirty years, having a signed living will or DPOA is the exception rather than the rule. When patients are admitted to the hospital this information regarding DPOA is offered. We have always relied on the next of kin. Is it your presumption that this rule applies to everyone BUT her? For GOd's sake, the woman was a paramedic, as was her husband, I guarantee they discussed this ALOT!
But if you think a signed DPOA or living will is required for all cased. GO ahead and argue.
Oh hell, I am going to say it.....she does not even need a "living will". She is dead.
It is sick that her wishes and the wishes of her next of kin are not honored.
I am curious, who is paying her medical bills? I would think their insurance would have stopped paying when she died.
Do you take the same position for all humans who need other humans to assist and protect them from time to time? The homeless person on a street corner in winter - just leave him to freeze to death, right, because that's what nature would do. How about someone who has a heart attack or stroke - just let them live or die on their own devices? How about a premature baby, who needs incubation for a time until he/she more fully develops - just toss them on a table and let them survive or die by their own natural means? Or is it just those unfortunate enough not to escape the womb in time for human intervention?
If a woman was declared brain dead at 8 months gestation, the optimal process and best option under the circumstances would be C-section.
If this is the case, then doctors are obsolete.
Absolutely right - the "let nature take its course" argument seems to me to be one that must hate all medical advancement or those who may intervene to alter the course of one's life.
This woman is dead. She is not on "life support" by any conventional meaning of the term and the hospital is merely in a race against decomposition in a macabre attempt to save a fetus from its fate.
And an honorable race it is, in my view.
Seems to me it's up to the family and everyone else can STFU..
This woman is dead. She is not on "life support" by any conventional meaning of the term and the hospital is merely in a race against decomposition in a macabre attempt to save a fetus from its fate.
Seems to me it's up to the family and everyone else can STFU..
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