Jac3510 wrote:Beanybag wrote:its helpful to think about when life ends, and that occurs at brain death
As a hospital chaplain who deals with this regularly, I can assure you while
legally you are correct, the legality is simply a legal fiction. The history of the concept is as disturbing as the diagnosis itself. BD is a very inappropriate definition of death when you look at it objectively.
That was why I described it as tenuous, but I didn't have time to go into details. I think when you point out what people have come back from when they were supposedly dead, arguing where life begins becomes a pointless endevour.
This, to me, is a HUGE civil rights issue and demonstrates a DEEP discriminatory bias against the disabled. We now are literally murdering them for the greater good of another.
I've heard this argument before, and I don't find it all that persuasive without superior evidence. There is a lack of consideration for quality of life in medicine, and we're only just beginning to consider it. I know many feel it's up to God to choose when people die, but why isn't it up to him to choose when we live instead of so many machines keeping us alive? Sometimes, you just need to die, even if you could have some chance at a recovery, and I think people should give that more serious consideration. Doctors are much more likely to deny extreme life saving measures because they know the quality of life it leads to. But, there is a profit to be potentially made from organ donations, and after videos
like this, I don't always trust doctors that much.
