Randomness :)

at 04/10/07 2:34AM
So I guess I need to update! LoL! It's been a while. I'm takin a break from studying for my anatomy and physiology test tomorrow! *bleh* But aside from that, I had a great weekend! It snowed at the DogWood Festival in Woodville! I was thinkin, "you've got to be kiddin' me! It's mid April! We didn't even get cold weather during winter!" LoL! But it was kinda cool. Then I dyed easter eggs and learned to play canasta! yay!

i've also been thinking about a controversial type thing and i'd like to hear some opinions on it. :) In bible class we were talkin about euthenasia (however you spell it) But our main focus was on people who were in the last stages of cancer and in a lot of pain and they wanted the doctor to basically help them commit suicide by pumping them with drugs. Now i can understand why that would definately be wrong, but I got to thinking of a similar scenario and confuzed myself. What if a person was only living because a machine was keeping them alive. Without that machine they couldn't breath or anything and they were basically a vegetable with little to no hope of recovery. Would it be wrong to want to pull the plug? would that necessarily be suicide? The reason I ask is because if i were ever in taht state I would hate to be a financial burden on those paying the medical bill, but I wouldn't want to make a decision that may condemn me to hell either. I don't know.. what are your thoughts? :)

  • mom2reese
    No, that would not be suicide because you are already dead at that point...just living only because a machine. And furthermore you couldn't make that decision for yourself...you would be a vegetable.
    by mom2reese at 04/10/07 9:23AM
  • bah
    Traci stole my answer. But I do think that she is right...Suicide is purposely ending your life because of selfish reasons. And that is definitely wrong. See you at camp!!!
    by bah at 04/10/07 12:11PM
  • lindsey
    I think it depends on what kind of tests they run to decide whether or not you are a vegetable. I mean, if you are absolutely brain dead then you are just a body. Terri Schiavo, although I don't want to open a can of worms, was not brain dead. In fact, she could learn to communicate. The "life support" she was denied was food and water. So ironic that she should die when not having it...
    by lindsey at 04/11/07 10:00PM
  • kayla2006
    "Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, "good", θάνατος, thanatos, death) is the practice of terminating the life of a person or animal in a painless or minimally painful way." "Life support, in the medical field, refers to a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life unaided. Life support therapies utilize some combination of several techniques: feeding tubes, intravenous drips, total parenteral nutrition, mechanical respiration, heart/lung bypass, defibrillation, urinary catheterization and dialysis. The same techniques are also used for intensive care or in some cases during surgery, though life support is employed to stabilize a patient and is typically not sufficient to allow full recovery from their condition." I think that that "pulling the plug" is not committing sucided becuase you have no brain activity what so ever. Remember in bio 238 when talking about the madulla oblongata and the pons? well the Pons is in control of your breathing, if that is part of your brain is dead you can not live. and your pherenic nerve controls your diaphram which is connected to your spinal cord, which runs up through your madulla oblongata to your pons, will not help you at all if it is dead!
    by kayla2006 at 04/12/07 11:07PM
  • kayla2006
    does that make sense?? can you tell i have bio on the "cerebrum"! ha
    by kayla2006 at 04/12/07 11:09PM
  • mangospice707
    haha--taht was great! thanks for all ur comments! I thought that it wasn't but i wasn't sure
    by mangospice707 at 04/24/07 2:19AM