This sort of thing makes my blood boil

[basmic]

Link to what I'm referring to.

The 19-month-old boy has genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy - which leads to almost total paralysis.

Medics said his quality of life was so poor he should be allowed to die. His family said his life was worth living.

The High Court in London heard how the child, who cannot breathe unaided and is almost totally paralysed, also cannot chew or swallow.

Sorry but the child is an unnecessary burdon on resources. In my eyes, it's like feeding a dying a horse.

If I post any more, I'll likely end up swearing through pure anger.

 

[basmic]

you think that it is at all surprising that a family wants to keep their child? Whatever condition they are in?

I think you need a reality check.

I think submitting it to what I feel is an desirable life is something that shouldn't be permitted.

I accept that it would be hard for the family to let the child die. But at the end of the day, what will be worth letting the child live it's current lifestyle?

 

[basmic]

My uncle said to me, if ever you find your child is going to be like this, *mimic a neck wringing action*, "say yes to the doctor".... They've had to live with this burden and it's more painful than it would have been to have let her pass away.

I have to say it's an awful position to be in, but I agree that there is little point in salvaging a life that will not be fulfilled or saved. It's tough decision, but I agree that the plug should be pulled in this case.

Very much what I wanted to put across - although I think I put it across in a harsher way.

Basically if nothing can come of the child's life, then end it's life. It's a waste of everybody's time, money and resources which could be better used elsewhere.

So who needs the reality check, Gilly? Me for not wasting people's time and putting people through the agony of having to watch a vegetable grow up?

 

[basmic]

You appear to be more rational now. Not quite rational, but at least more than when you started the thread. You were emotional regarding the subject but you'd gone the wrong way with the emotion. You were angered by someone wanting to keep their child alive.

No matter the plight of the child natural instinct is to keep the child alive at all costs.

Thats why you needed the reality check.

I'm more rational, because Freefaller has pretty much said what I tried to say.

At the time of writing the thread, I was fuming - I could have said worse, but the punishment from the Moderators on here for doing so isn't worth it.

 

[basmic]

It certainly shouldn't be making your blood boil over apparant waste of resources.

Probably not, but I'm not a great a believer in waste.

Which reminds me, I'm going to try and part myself with some old stuff in the loft later.

 

[basmic]

So on that line of reasoning at the instant someone becomes useless we should chuck them away? Should we go through hospitals daily unplugging old people? They had lived their time, now they need to stop using out juicy delicious air.

Does a person need to be useful or productive to deserve to deserve a life?

Those old people more than likely had their live's worth.

Having worked in a old-folks home, I can say that some are purely there to sit and die. If we were to unplug them, all we'd be doing is putting them out of their agony.

When they do die, their families almost always say "well at least they're out their misery now" - they could have put them out of their misery earlier, if it was allowed.

My point being - if somebody's life isn't worth living, why should they have to live it?

 

[basmic]

Change doctors or go private

Or just unplug this child, and unleash some resources.

I understand I come across as bitter git. But at the end of the day, the child is very much a vegetable.