(January 26, 2015 at 6:38 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: A dedicated team of individuals that may include a combination of social workers, medical practitioners including consultants from oncology and pediatrics, other family members and so on.
When parents absolve themselves of caring for their children (children in the care system) then the state and/or foster parents become the de facto guardians until a child is found adoptive parents or is kicked out of the care system at 18 (or whatever age is relevant).
I think, Lek, you see the world in black and white terms where things are either 'good' or they're not. That's not reality, not anywhere, not even for you. You can make yourself think 'parents knows best', but the sheer number of children in the care system for example evidences this is to be a demonstrable delusion.
Where, then, does this leave us with the topic forwarded by the OP? It leaves us with the consideration that, when given a choice between embarking on a course of action that has a 75%~ chance of something happening and another course of action where the guaranteed result is death, a parent who chooses the later is in breach of the notion that 'a parent always knows best'.
I understand how the system works. One reason that I don't understand the fuss in this case is that she died of a stroke, not leukemia. What does that have to do with her not continuing chemo? Was the stroke caused by the state of her weakened body or did this 11 year old happen to have another unrelated condition that caused the stroke? From what I understand, chemotherapy can definitely cause a stroke.
You don't know that. Indeed you cant know that unless you're privvy to her medical files at the time of death and the resulting autopsy (presuming there was one - I doubt it considering the aversion to medicine).
As Jacob highlights above, leukaemia is a disease of the blood. A stroke is a lack of blood reaching a given area of the brain.
Now none of us know for sure, but it seems pretty disingenuous to dismiss any credible link between having a blood disease and an event caused by having an issue with your circulatory system, no?
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