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Can anyone explain why keep them alive when there is no chance they are ever going to be able to enjoy anything in life, do anything or experience anything?
this is just sad and possibly sadistic - but I'm wondering if it isn't and if others have any insight as to why they allow them to suffer as they do.
originally posted by: Metallicus
We can just place all the weak children on the side of a hill to die like the ancient Spartans. Maybe we should start killing old people too. I mean let’s value someone based on their financial cost to society and what they produce. Sounds like a wonderful dystopia to me.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
Can anyone explain why keep them alive when there is no chance they are ever going to be able to enjoy anything in life, do anything or experience anything?
My friend's daughter has Cystic Fibrosis and will die young. They could have just let her die as an infant, but instead she's completed a BSc and lived life to the fullest. Another family I know have a son with Duchenne Syndrome and the boy has gone from an active 5 year old to an inactive 16 year old.
People can enjoy life and experience great things in the face of the greatest obstacles.
this is just sad and possibly sadistic - but I'm wondering if it isn't and if others have any insight as to why they allow them to suffer as they do.
Is your measure of humanity so short, so limited that 'sadism' is your best explanation for why parents/family don't want their children to die? Two words work better - love and hope.
The families that were interviewed, they all had 3-5 other children, so it wasn't like these were only children that the family had.
originally posted by: testingtesting
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
I look after a guy who can not walk nor communicate normally but we know him well enough to understand how he communicates through eye movements and the sounds he makes he has a list of conditions as long as your arm and the medical professionals are amazed he has even lived as long as he has, he was always told he would not live past his early twenties and he is in his mid thirties now.
We love him to bits we help give him a quality life and he enriches everyone he meets.
What programme was it?.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
The families that were interviewed, they all had 3-5 other children, so it wasn't like these were only children that the family had.
I guess that makes it all better then.
I don't like seeing children in pain, or spending exciting holidays in a hospital. However, I believe its the parents right to do as they wish in the end.
But I'll be damned before I let the government tell me what I can and cannot do with my child.
originally posted by: Justso
I've only seen one child like that in my life and really a horrible family situation. It haunts me to this day so I do understand where you are coming from but never once thought of putting the child to death.
Misery is quite often a human condition. Love, duty, respect of life in all its forms does have value and it is different for each person. Letting or quickening the death of a loved one is not an easy question to answer. However, in the severe cases of these children, perhaps some option to stop the pain, because we do have that ability, would at least be considered humane.
originally posted by: Justso
I've only seen one child like that in my life and really a horrible family situation. It haunts me to this day so I do understand where you are coming from but never once thought of putting the child to death.
Misery is quite often a human condition. Love, duty, respect of life in all its forms does have value and it is different for each person. Letting or quickening the death of a loved one is not an easy question to answer. However, in the severe cases of these children, perhaps some option to stop the pain, because we do have that ability, would at least be considered humane.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
It was "Panorama" a BBC (I think) show, it aired last night. It is a british TV show at least.
originally posted by: [post=23591056]DigginFoTroof[post]
Can anyone explain this? I've never had to go through something like this so I can't imagine how terrible it must be, but I have to say that I would think it has to be different than saying goodbye to a suffering loved one (parent) with whom you have spent years, decades, etc with. Especially when there is no hope of them getting better or having any sensible quality of life, this is just sad and possibly sadistic - but I'm wondering if it isn't and if others have any insight as to why they allow them to suffer as they do.