by Cassiline 15 Replies latest jw friends
I googled the web to take a look at some articles pertaining to this subjecting and found some interesting ones...tried to embed the article on this thread and apparently it doesn't like it, so I am hyperlinking it instead....
http://old.smh.com.au/news/0102/10/features/features7.html
Yizuman
FYI...In St louis Mo there is a "Bloodless Hospitall" . They do all operations without any blood. Scary huh!......
Snoozy....
I tend to disagree with you Six. Those who believe in God as stated by the bible believe he bestowed life to us. Belief of his actions alone resulting in our being living and breathing human beings, therefore if a doctor can manipulate science, and use his/her medical prowess to assure life one can consequently compare him/herself to God. This resulting in what some refer to as a God Complex.
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Edited by - cassiline on 10 January 2003 23:23:41
It seems as if we are in an awkward stage in our society. We have enough knowledge and technology to prolong life, but at the same time we are woefully lacking in our ability to offer complete cures resulting in the magical "quality of life". This story is a good example of that. At what point did the doctor cross from a heroic effort to placing undue burdens on the family and society's resources, to say nothing of the child itself. Tough choice: being a brain dead vegetable for your entire life or die. IF we were more advanced in medicine this particular example would have a happy resolution. But we're not.
I'm not wise enough to know where the line is. Sometimes I think we only know when we've crossed it.
As I sit here contemplating a reply to this thread, I happen to pull a quote card that goes along my line of thought: "There is only life. There is nobody who lives a life." To me this is like the question of what you do with family member that's in a cult. It's a little late at that point, you're already up shit creek basically. What we need to do is respect the process of life, rather than have this human centered idea of staying alive or not. (obviously, when you put it in those terms people all want to hang on) This may sound kind of cold and impersonal, but in fact that is what would best prepare us for a healthy life. Last time I checked the way health care is approached is still that of when something screws up, try to get someone (else) to fix it. The human body functions in a certain way, it only makes sense to have some understanding of what that is. Even some people who are health conscious stay with a basically narrow outlook of just the human organism, when in fact it is an open system that continuously interacts with the environment.
I'm not making a judgement one way or the other, but one way of putting this in a nutshell is simply pay attention. Atleast this way if shit is gonna happen, you'll have a better chance of seeing it coming.
