Naked Economics

Patient's Right To Die

In each day that God gives is another opportunity to live your best life. Making peace with yourself and others, fulfilling dreams and aspirations, and reaching self actualization. Who and how is it decided for a patients right to die? Do we abide by living wills and carry out the wishes of a person who may declare with a stable mind, that in the event something devastating took place that he/she would rather their life come to an end? Should that be a patient right to decide? If so, would the patient be requesting that another commits murder?

I strongly believe that "NO MAN" has the right t to decide the fate of another mans life. Who are we to play the role of God? I very well respect the wishes of those who choose DNR's (do not resuscitate). In order to be resuscitated, your life must have already ended due to a any factor of unusual stressors to the body. However, I have a hard time trying to digest the idea of pulling the plug on a person. If an individual has a pulse and is breathing there are still positive possibilities regardless of time. Just as there are if you would with resuscitating a person.

In view of things, pulling the plug on a living breathing soul is murder. Plain and simple. If we are not God we mustn't personally decide when someone should die. If we do than I'm afraid that we have become murderers. I can remember working in a certain health care facility where there was an old lady in her early 100's. She had been suffering from all kinds of ailments. She didn't speak, move about, or eat. She was fed by tube and always stiff as a board. She was visited by her son twice a day everyday . I can remember the nurses always saying how she was not living just existing. At times I could understand their remarks only because she was totally unresponsive in every aspect. However, she was alive. For whatever reasons God allowed. Maybe her being there for as long as she did was to teach myself and others a thing or two about humility, appreciation, and respect. Despite the emotional toll taking on the residents son he's never complained nor rushed the departure of his mother from this earth. Did he love her just that much or did he realize that the choice wasn't his nor his mother's to make for the continuity of her life.