(September 4, 2014 at 12:53 am)answer-is-42 Wrote: Not sure you know at all what you are talking about. First of all, discontination of life support is an ethical question, not a phsyiological one.and?
Quote:I have personally experienced awake, communicating people requesting that their life-sustaining medical interventions (not just ventilators, but pressors, anti-biotics, pulmonary meds, etc) be disconnected, it's not fun but you are EXACTLY WRONG that it cannot be done, it can and is done.-And you've seen the trouble that follows when the family makes the argument that the patient is incompetent, eh? I guess you didn't get my little kevorkian joke - that's okay, it was weak.
Quote:In fact that is the ethically easiest situations. The hard ones are the ones you are flippant about - an unresponsive person whose wishes are unclear or more likely whose MPA's wishs are in conflict - stopping care there is very hard.But just as easy, legally, if all the paperwork is in order. I'm not asking you about your personal experiences and your recounting your feelings on the matter won't be informative with regards to what you're discussing. You don't have the slightest fucking clue what I might be flippant about. We're discussing rights, law, correct? Not how bad you felt when you pulled the plug, or how bad I feel hearing the story.
Quote: Sorry you don't know what you are taking about other then your crash course from Grey's Anatomy, but real life ain't like that.LOL, honest question, to anybody who watched greys anatomy...was the show decent?
Quote:Yeah, strange requirement to be considered human.
Next, the previous person required consiousness as a requirement for human life- this is the medical definition of consciousness. If I recall, you wouldn't respond to me on another thread without giving a definition of "god" (still waiting for your response there after I gave one)
Quote:- so let me ask you then - what definition of conscionsness would you like to use to define human life? please be specific so we can be talking intellegently.This is going to be delicious. "I'm comfortable with the traditional definition"
Ill pop into a thread a few days from now to tell you how I'm still waiting for your brilliant response.
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