31st March 2005, 5:37 PM
I've thought about this a lot, kind of hard not to, and what I've decided that if I were ever to find myself in such a situation [or in a coma] I don't know what I would want. On the one hand I wouldn't want people to give up on me if there was a chance that I could recover to some degree [which a few docters said was possible in the case], but on the other hand at that point there would really be nothing of my former life left. So, I figure the only way that I could ever know what I would want is to go through an experience like that.
But, despite being brain-damaged she was still a living human being who should have had every right to live as anyone else. So, I think it was a terrible thing to cause her to die in such a way when it was clear that she would still live for some time, and even in such a state there were still people who desired to care for her and who [apparently] took some amount of joy in the fact that she was still alive.
I think the difference with this, aside from the fact that there was conflict between the different parts of her family, was that this wasn't a woman who was in a coma or in some terrible pain or on the verge of death. She was a living, conscious human being. I think that's why so many people have such strong opinions about this.
But, despite being brain-damaged she was still a living human being who should have had every right to live as anyone else. So, I think it was a terrible thing to cause her to die in such a way when it was clear that she would still live for some time, and even in such a state there were still people who desired to care for her and who [apparently] took some amount of joy in the fact that she was still alive.
Quote:Stuff like this happens all of the time.
I think the difference with this, aside from the fact that there was conflict between the different parts of her family, was that this wasn't a woman who was in a coma or in some terrible pain or on the verge of death. She was a living, conscious human being. I think that's why so many people have such strong opinions about this.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.