Hi there,
I was wondering if I could get some thoughts and perspectives on artificial life support...if a physical life can be sustained with the use of machines, should it?
By physical life I mean simply its mechanisms. Assume, for the sake of argument, that this person who is being sustained has a slim to none chance of regaining their faculties which would allow them to live a life of action, communication, or anything of the like.
Given that life support is expensive for the family members of this individual, what of their plight?
Does not necessity and their quality of life matter as well and, given the nature of life support, they'd be drained of resources which would potentially claim the family's quality of life.
I wonder, then, how one could face this issue: God is surely the one who gives and takes away and are we incorrect to offer life support to those who cannot be sustained otherwise?
What then of the chance an individual on life support might recover?
Would you invoke the argument that the one on life support is one of "the least of these" to whom we are to give every effort to preserve and honor?
I understand this issue isn't black and white, I would simply like to know some different opinions on the matter.
I was wondering if I could get some thoughts and perspectives on artificial life support...if a physical life can be sustained with the use of machines, should it?
By physical life I mean simply its mechanisms. Assume, for the sake of argument, that this person who is being sustained has a slim to none chance of regaining their faculties which would allow them to live a life of action, communication, or anything of the like.
Given that life support is expensive for the family members of this individual, what of their plight?
Does not necessity and their quality of life matter as well and, given the nature of life support, they'd be drained of resources which would potentially claim the family's quality of life.
I wonder, then, how one could face this issue: God is surely the one who gives and takes away and are we incorrect to offer life support to those who cannot be sustained otherwise?
What then of the chance an individual on life support might recover?
Would you invoke the argument that the one on life support is one of "the least of these" to whom we are to give every effort to preserve and honor?
I understand this issue isn't black and white, I would simply like to know some different opinions on the matter.
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