Woman can't let Grandson die in vain..............

[Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Have you met my friend Cowgirl? You and she could rule the world if you tried hard enough.

You think you know it all. I actually agree with Kwillia on this one.

[toppick08 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

You think you know it all. I actually agree with Kwillia on this one.

Are ya'll gonna' fight in here or in the horsey room ?

[kwillia]

Originally Posted by nhboy

The mother-daughter relationship splintered after Nov. 8, when Dennis, 14, was diagnosed in a Seattle hospital with leukemia. His doctors had given Dennis a 70 percent chance at a full recovery, provided he accept repeated blood transfusions.

Though badly depleted from chemotherapy, Dennis refused because he was a devout Jehovah's Witness.

Okay... so the subject of this thread raised an uproar with some saying the gov't should step in and overrule personal religious belief...

how 'bout now?

A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.

Brain-dead boy still on life support - Crime & courts

Motl Brody of Brooklyn was pronounced dead this week after a half-year fight against a brain tumor, and doctors at Children's National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader's brain has ceased functioning entirely.

But for the past few days, a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday afternoon, his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of intravenous drugs and adrenaline.

That heartbeat has prompted Motl's parents, who are Orthodox Jews, to refuse the hospital's request to remove all artificial life support.

Under some interpretations of Jewish religious law, including the one accepted by the family's Hasidic sect, death occurs only when the heart and lungs stop functioning.

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Okay... so the subject of this thread raised an uproar with some saying the gov't should step in and overrule personal religious belief...

how 'bout now?

A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.

They have NO RIGHT TO FORCE HIM TO LIVE WITH NO DIGNITY!!Y!Y!Y!




We need a pitchfork & torch smiley.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by kwillia

Under some interpretations of Jewish religious law, including the one accepted by the family's Hasidic sect, death occurs only when the heart and lungs stop functioning.

The heart and lungs *have* stopped functioning. They are being artificially manipulated by machines and drugs.

If they can pay the bill for all this, let them have at it. I think it's sick, but it's not my kid. If, however, they cannot pay the bill to keep their child artificially "alive", then that should be that.

[kwillia]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

The heart and lungs *have* stopped functioning. They are being artificially manipulated by machines and drugs.

If they can pay the bill for all this, let them have at it. I think it's sick, but it's not my kid. If, however, they cannot pay the bill to keep their child artificially "alive", then that should be that.

I agree.