(January 9, 2015 at 2:57 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: If you're sane and well informed, I believe the decision is up to you, not some meddling bastard, who knows nothing about you that isn't in your case file, sitting a bench in some court room.
I absolutely 100% agree, but here's the thing:
Do we let a sane, well-informed 5-year-old decide not to get chemo?
A sane, well-informed 9-year-old?
I've said earlier in this thread, and I'll say it again, that I think 18 is too high an age at which to start letting people make their own medical decisions.
But the age can't be 4, can it? So, again, I ask, how do we deal with it?
Because if the answer is "in a certain age range, it's on a case-by-case basis," then the "meddling bastard sitting on a bench in some court room" is going to have a much greater say in far more cases.
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Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.
