Pulling the Plug
When is life worth living?
When you're physically and mentally able?
Which life is not worth preserving?
There is no one on earth able to create a soul...
Do we have a right to decide when we want to die?
Why can't we decide for how long we'll live?
While visiting Jem at the hospital (he went for a dental op, under GA), my Dad bumped into the children of his cousin...
Apparently, this guy had gotten a stroke and was in a coma since the day he fell... approximately a week ago.
Classified medically brain dead, his family were going to pull the plug that very night...
I went to take a look.
The man lying there was not someone I recognised, but what I did recognise was the hiss of a pump, the beeping of a machine, and a gentle sigh each time the air was released from his machine-assisted lungs.
It was like seeing my great-granddad in hospital all over again.
It did not scare me, no... But it did make me wonder what I would like to have done if I were in his situation.
I wrote a will when I was a child... Yes... it was morbid to do something like that, and I don't know why I did it.
It simply stated that I would give my Barbie collection to my cousin and the swing and tent in my room to my brother.
My fortune, a grand total of $4.20 would go to my parents and everything else to whoever came to my funeral.
Sure... it might have been childish, but what came at the end was more mature.
I stated that I did not want to live if I was paralysed or mentally less able.
Nothing to do with money, because as a kid, all my medical expenses was paid for by the government, but because I did not think life would be any fun that way...
If I were to make a will at this time and age, it would differ slightly...
Everything would go to my parents.
My savings would go to my Brother's education fund.
And...
I still would not want to live if I was paralysed or mentally less able.
And...
I would add...PS: Feel free to pull the plug. I promise I won't come back to visit.
I just think that since medical expenses are sky-high in this day and age, it really is not worth keeping 1 coma patient alive and letting the rest of the family suffer emotionally and monetarily. I'm speaking for myself.
I know that it is a painful and difficult position for any family to be in.
They'll always hope.
And hope, is a powerful thing.
Faith, is a powerful thing.
Let's wrap this morbid discussion up....
When you're physically and mentally able?
Which life is not worth preserving?
There is no one on earth able to create a soul...
Do we have a right to decide when we want to die?
Why can't we decide for how long we'll live?
While visiting Jem at the hospital (he went for a dental op, under GA), my Dad bumped into the children of his cousin...
Apparently, this guy had gotten a stroke and was in a coma since the day he fell... approximately a week ago.
Classified medically brain dead, his family were going to pull the plug that very night...
I went to take a look.
The man lying there was not someone I recognised, but what I did recognise was the hiss of a pump, the beeping of a machine, and a gentle sigh each time the air was released from his machine-assisted lungs.
It was like seeing my great-granddad in hospital all over again.
It did not scare me, no... But it did make me wonder what I would like to have done if I were in his situation.
I wrote a will when I was a child... Yes... it was morbid to do something like that, and I don't know why I did it.
It simply stated that I would give my Barbie collection to my cousin and the swing and tent in my room to my brother.
My fortune, a grand total of $4.20 would go to my parents and everything else to whoever came to my funeral.
Sure... it might have been childish, but what came at the end was more mature.
I stated that I did not want to live if I was paralysed or mentally less able.
Nothing to do with money, because as a kid, all my medical expenses was paid for by the government, but because I did not think life would be any fun that way...
If I were to make a will at this time and age, it would differ slightly...
Everything would go to my parents.
My savings would go to my Brother's education fund.
And...
I still would not want to live if I was paralysed or mentally less able.
And...
I would add...PS: Feel free to pull the plug. I promise I won't come back to visit.
I just think that since medical expenses are sky-high in this day and age, it really is not worth keeping 1 coma patient alive and letting the rest of the family suffer emotionally and monetarily. I'm speaking for myself.
I know that it is a painful and difficult position for any family to be in.
They'll always hope.
And hope, is a powerful thing.
Faith, is a powerful thing.
Let's wrap this morbid discussion up....
posted by Cherry Lucky @ 1:57 am
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