Can I be sued for saving someone's life? Yes I can

[Aractus]

Oh please spare me the politically correct lecture that I'm tired of hearing about - I'm perfectly aware doctors can't perform anything against their patient's wishes, I was merely addressing an already troubling scenario that has the potential to affect people negatively and shows how irrational religious belief makes you (in some cases). Why the hell does someone choose to die when they can live without any negative consequences other than a troubling memory of an isolated accident that required a blood transfusion and a trip to the ER? Doesn't this make you frustrated with the world and society? Or are you different to the fact some people are so self-destructive it makes us all wonder?

I am not putting into question people's choices, I'm questioning why they make dumb choices in the first place.

No, it's not up to you or I to judge people for making informed decisions about their medical treatment. If they make a decision not to continue treatment (or not to receive it in the first place) based on religious beliefs that's their decision to make. They're entitled to be treated with the same dignity, respect, and care as any other patient in the hospital - including the drug addicts who you could say self-harmed their way into the hospital in the first place.

Everyone dies eventually. Some people are more at peace with it than others, and are more welcoming of an earlier death. Labelling their choices as "dumb" is incredibly short-sighted and rather antagonistic.

[ignoramus]

How do we know that the person is not depressed and wants to die and just makes up that he's a jehova's, knowing that the doctor's will be forced to let him die?
Surely, we're all aware that people are not responsible for what they say/do when in this depressed state?

[rado84]

Imagine the following scenario:

I'm a doctor working at the ER and a patient comes in, his life is at stake and in desperate need of a blood transfusion. (...)

Just let them die and that's it. If they're stupid enough to refuse to be saved, if I were you I wouldn't bother saving them. Better let a moron die than be sued later for doing my job.

[Godscreated]

I do not think a parent should refuse treatment for a child, religion isn't a reason to keep medical attention from children. Just as a parent shouldn't have the right to murder their unborn children. To many here want to blame religious people for refusing to give permission to save a child's life, yet believe it's okay to take a child's life just because it's not yet living outside a woman's body. How is this even a logical thought on their part. Evolution doesn't give a parent the right to refuse to allow a child to live either, but then some want their cake and eat it too, even though it cost another their life, in either case.

GC

[Godscreated]

Imagine the following scenario:

I'm a doctor working at the ER and a patient comes in, his life is at stake and in desperate need of a blood transfusion. (...)

Just let them die and that's it. If they're stupid enough to refuse to be saved, if I were you I wouldn't bother saving them. Better let a moron die than be sued later for doing my job.

No it's not at some point regardless of the consequences a person need to take a stand on what's right.

GC

[Jackalope]

Hey, let's turn every thread into an abortion thread, yeah?

To answer your questions, though - it's a nuanced distinction, and yeah, we get that you don't understand it.