Terminally Ill Children's Rights...

Oh man... Heartbreaker...



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Kids are not stupid. They can decide whether or not they want to be in pain. As long as they have good support and counsel from their legal guardian, I support letting anybody of any age decide to end their life.

We should not have the right to tell them that they don't know best... even when they don't.

I personally think its one thing to have a terminal illness and another to be terminally ill - in that being in the final stages of it to me represents the only opportunity where suicide would be an option for me. I'm not sure that distinction is made elsewhere but note the article does mention at one point "and imminent death".

Pain management is a difficult topic, but I cannot help but think that suicide for the terminally ill should only ever be an option for anyone in those final stages of the terminal illness - just for the reason that we are learning things all the time, and it would be a shame to opt out of life in the moment before something was found which could have resolved the conditions forcing that decision to be taken. Regardless of the patients age.

We take ourselves pretty seriously much too often ...

Anyone alive is facing "imminent death" ; we just don't know the term and probably would best not use our Reason to decide on one. If, on the other hand, we're just using our idea of science to prolong a life that is marked by suffering - as much by the prolongation as by the disease killing it - and death is not only imminent but probably would have resulted already except by our meddling, then it is not even "suicide" nor "euthanasia" but simply permitting death to happen.

It seems that these are silly things to squabble over ... :S

Alexandre Orion wrote: We take ourselves pretty seriously much too often ...

Anyone alive is facing "imminent death" ; we just don't know the term and probably would best not use our Reason to decide on one. If, on the other hand, we're just using our idea of science to prolong a life that is marked by suffering - as much by the prolongation as by the disease killing it - and death is not only imminent but probably would have resulted already except by our meddling, then it is not even "suicide" nor "euthanasia" but simply permitting death to happen.

It seems that these are silly things to squabble over ... :S

Isn't everything we "squabble", silly?

Yet, we do it anyway....

We squabble over that which we find important enough to squabble over...

I find this news rather comforting... I am glad for the option for the patient, for the family....

I have had my father pass suddenly, and watched the life ebb out of my father-in-law...

The quick one, "BANG", lights out... Last memories were good ones...

The slower one, the last memories are of bed shitting, and hallucinations.... Moans of pain, and uncertainty of morphine doses...

I can't imagine that with a child...