Re:Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years
by Nasrudith on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:00AM
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Why is a matter of agency and fear of death and ability to give non-impaired consent. People fear "getting written off" by other's judgement.
It is one thing when it is readily apparent neccessity -medics can only give you morphine while your guts are hanging out and getting you potentially barely saveable would cost say ten other lives of people who only need the bleeding stopped. It is another thing entirely when they have all of the time in the world and it involves tough decisions nobody wants to make until the conclusion is utterly foregone like total brain death.
It is one thing when it is readily apparent neccessity -medics can only give you morphine while your guts are hanging out and getting you potentially barely saveable would cost say ten other lives of people who only need the bleeding stopped. It is another thing entirely when they have all of the time in the world and it involves tough decisions nobody wants to make until the conclusion is utterly foregone like total brain death.