They are on what’s called life support, a device that keeps the patient on life sustaining medication or oxygen in order to keep them alive.
Without this the person would die of their disease or natural cause.The question is whose decision is it to permit weather or not that person lives; is it the doctor or the family?
3 comments:
I think that in the end the family should be the one to decide weather the person should stay on life support or have the plug pulled. Because the family are the ones who know the person best and would know what that person would have wanted. But i also feel that what the doctor says is very important, because they are the ones who truly know if a person looks like they are going to recover or not, and a family should base some of there choice on the doctors thoughts. Also i do think that it is moral to pull the plug and i do not consider it murder.
I also believe that family should have the most influence on whether a patient is left on life support or has the plug pulled. I think that it is mortal to pull the plug because we all know that death is something we are going to have to face some day and I think that it is better for a person to die naturally when their time comes rather than to leave them on life support and continue to see their and our own misery.
I believe that the family should be the one to make the decision in these situations. I really don't think the doctor should have any say in the situation because it is not their family member to make that sort of decision the doctor is not at all effected by the situation so it should be up to the family. I actually went through a situation like this last year. My great-grandmother was in the hospital and she wasn't doing to well and the doctor said if we don't decide to "pull the plug" then she would stay how she was just laying in the bed not being able to talk forever. However, my family decided not to and she ended up talking and eating by herself for a few months after the doctor said she wasn't going to get better. Although it was just a few months, all the time was worth it. That is another reason why it should be the family's decision because there is always a chance the doctor is wrong and you don't want to regret ending another person's life, especially someone you love.
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