Still... I can sorta see a distinction. This isn't a child. This is somebody whose cerebral cortex has been liquified... If not for an IMMENSE amount of interference by doctors, their body would naturally have died long ago (I want to say "as well" but I cant know for sure that there isnt some partial piece of her... somewhere... left of her within that shell. And that's what makes all this hard).
Of course, then you also have to say, at what point does it become ok to let nature take its course? Doctors save people from impossible circumstances all the time, by their interference.
I don't have an answer as to what's right either. So I say: *shrug* :/
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Date: 2005-03-25 10:07 pm (UTC)Still... I can sorta see a distinction. This isn't a child. This is somebody whose cerebral cortex has been liquified... If not for an IMMENSE amount of interference by doctors, their body would naturally have died long ago (I want to say "as well" but I cant know for sure that there isnt some partial piece of her... somewhere... left of her within that shell. And that's what makes all this hard).
Of course, then you also have to say, at what point does it become ok to let nature take its course? Doctors save people from impossible circumstances all the time, by their interference.
I don't have an answer as to what's right either. So I say: *shrug* :/