proud republican wrote:
Your baby is born with rare disease that makes him unable to breathe without machine, he can't eat without feeding tube,he is blind and he is deaf..... Doctors say there is no cure ..... What do you do? Do you
A) Let him suffer and keep him on the machine for the rest of his life ?
B) Turn the machine off and let him go in peace . ...
What would you do??Does this baby boy have the right to die with dignity ??
What's with the worst case hypothetical? You had the kid's grave dug before you got him out of the womb.
You ever hear of miracles? They do happen, ya know.
For example:
Barbara Snyder was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with multiple sclerosis. She deteriorated over a period of many years, several operations, many hospitalizations. It got to the point where she was dying. And, in fact, one doctor described her as being one of the most hopelessly ill patients he'd ever encountered.
Synder ended up in hospice care with a no resuscitation order; she was nearly blind, her hands and body were curled and she had a breathing tube in her throat as well as a tube in her stomach to ensure proper nourishment. Her muscles were atrophied to the point her toes were nearly touching the soles of her feet.
One day, one of her friends called WMBI, the radio station in Chicago run by the Moody Bible Institute, and said, "Pray for Barbara. She's on her deathbed". The station informed its listeners and at least 450 Christians began praying for her. They wrote letters to her saying, "We're praying for you."
Then, on Pentecost Sunday, two of Synder’s friends read her letters from those praying for her. As she listened, she said she heard a male voice coming from the corner of the room — a voice she now believes was God.
"This male voice coming from the corner of the room where nobody was said, 'Get up my child and walk'." She pulled the tube out of her throat and said, "Go find my parents", then jumped out of bed.
Her calves were inflated and her once-atrophied muscles worked again. Her feet and fingers were suddenly straight and normal again. Her blindness, too, had been instantaneously healed. This was a sudden healing of all of her symptoms and all of her illness to the point where … 31 years later she's completely healthy.
Even her physician who had signed the no resuscitation order was so overwhelmed he wrote a lengthy report describing in detail the hopelessness of her condition and concluded that such an instantaneous healing could only occur through divine intervention.
Thomas Marshall, MD. ReportWhen word of Barbara's healing got out, atheists went ballistic.
Miracles do happen and if it was my child in the condition you describe, I would do everything possible to get him on the prayer lists and leave it in the hands of God.
In the eyes of God, every life is precious. It would be a shame not to do everything possible to save him.