Morbid Dilemma x22342423

[Ninastar]

Imagine you are a nurse/doctor and you've just been given a 8 year old patient. You soon find out that this 8 year old boy was in a car accident which had killed the rest of his family (mum dad and older sister). You notice that he is on life support. Would you switch it off? No one would find out.

I'm going to hell.

[michael21]

no

[MTVN]

No, not as long as he's still got a chance of living a good life

[Locke.]

What would be the point in that

[Doogle]

Omfg, I want to say yes but I feel like God is looking at me from above with his hand hovering over the "torture" button.

[Josy]

No I would never be able to do something like that, he's only 8 so if he recovers he could get adopted into another family and settle in with them.

[Ramsay]

No.

[GypsyGoth]

Yes, it would save electricity.

[Kate!]

No, definitely couldn't.

But I wouldn't judge anyone who.said yes, poor child. It's tragic.

[Kate!]

No, definitely couldn't.

But I wouldn't judge anyone who.said yes, poor child. It's tragic.

[Novo]

What the ****, No.

[King Gizzard]

Why would you switch it off? Is he not going to survive or something?

[Smithy]

Yes, it would save electricity.

gurrl :laugh2:

[Smithy]

Why would you switch it off? Is he not going to survive or something?

because if he survives he's got noone, his whole family are dead

[Locke.]

"This kids lost his family so I think I'll just pop along and kill him aswell"

[Vicky.]

I dont get it?

Why would you switch it off?

The only way this would be a 'dilema' for me would be if you knew he was going to be sseverely disabled or something too...and there was no family there to make the decision so it was down to you

[Ramsay]

"This kids lost his family so I think I'll just pop along and kill him aswell"

:joker::joker:

[thesheriff443]

no that would be murder

[Vicky.]

because if he survives he's got noone, his whole family are dead

But at that age he would settle with a new family :S

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Yes, it would save electricity.

:joker::joker::joker:

but seriously why would anybody do that :conf2:

[King Gizzard]

because if he survives he's got noone, his whole family are dead

Then without a shadow of a doubt no :S no one knows whether he'll be happy or sad in later life, he could meet the girl of his dreams, have a wife and kids and could be happily married. We don't know

[Samuel.]

Not really a decision you should be making.

[michael21]

what would you do Ninastar

[Ninastar]

this is something we spoke about in a lesson once, it's not something i think about for pleasure.

[michael21]

for me it no any way it not just one preson when he grows up he might have kids and when they grow up they might have kids and so on

[Ninastar]

I wouldn't know what I'd do. I doubt he'd ever settle with a new family and it's not something you ever really get over. It's something you'd struggle with your whole life.

But again, you never know what would happen

[Novo]

Jedward Fever's sister arises from the Ashes

[Ninastar]

for me it no any way it not just one preson when he grows up he might have kids and when they grow up they might have kids and so on

inspiring

[Marsh.]

Silly question really, it wouldn't be up to you to decide.

[michael21]

inspiring

i no so let the kid live :dance::dance::dance:

[Doogle]

The thing is you'd have to tell the kid all his family is dead and everything and I don't know that just seems too much.

[Marsh.]

I wouldn't know what I'd do. I doubt he'd ever settle with a new family and it's not something you ever really get over. It's something you'd struggle with your whole life.

But again, you never know what would happen

It would be a struggle, but he would only be 8 therefore has his entire life to create new relationships with a new family. Not beyond possibility IMO.

Either way, as far as switching life support off goes I wouldn't be pigheaded enough to think that it was my decision to make.

[King Gizzard]

It would completely ruin him if he was told, but not to an extent where you can justify killing him himself, they'll have expert people to deal with him, and he might have grandparents/relatives that can take him on

[michael21]

The thing is you'd have to tell the kid all his family is dead and everything and I don't know that just seems too much.

he might not rememberer any thing

[Marsh.]

The thing is you'd have to tell the kid all his family is dead and everything and I don't know that just seems too much.

If doctor's had the option to kill people they had to deliver very bad news to then not many people would come out of the hospital alive. lol

[Brother Leon]

I am sure he would have Uncles,Aunts or someone willing to look after him.

[Doogle]

If doctor's had the option to kill people they had to deliver very bad news to then not many people would come out of the hospital alive. lol

:joker: I LOL'd at that. I didn't really give it much thought when I thought about this. But Idk it's just such a horrible thing for the child to cope with. Killing it wouldn't be the right answer I guess but it's truly awful.

[Marsh.]

he might not rememberer any thing

I don't understand. You're hoping he wouldn't remember having parents in the first place so it would lessen the blow? :joker:

[michael21]

I don't understand. You're hoping he wouldn't remember having parents in the first place so it would lessen the blow? :joker:

he new he had parents but he might not be able to remember them

[joeysteele]

Absolutely, no way could I do that at all.

[Kizzy]

Jedward Fever's sister arises from the Ashes

What does this mean?

[King Gizzard]

As in jedward fever asking awkward questions all the time and this was a bit like one of his, I guess

[Locke.]

Still wondering how this is classed as a dilemma

[Mystic Mock]

Well it depends how likely he is to survive, but I probably wouldn't.

[Mystic Mock]

Jedward Fever's sister arises from the Ashes

My Sister is very much alive.:joker:

[Niamh.]

No, why would you do that?

[Niamh.]

I don't understand. You're hoping he wouldn't remember having parents in the first place so it would lessen the blow? :joker:

:laugh2: That genuinely made me laugh out loud

[Niamh.]

I wouldn't know what I'd do. I doubt he'd ever settle with a new family and it's not something you ever really get over. It's something you'd struggle with your whole life.

But again, you never know what would happen

Kids are very resilient though, why would you take it upon yourself to decide that he won't have a happy life now? It's crazy

[Livia]

The decision to switch off life support is based purely on the fact that his family are dead? Absolutely not then. If he is clinically dead, and could only be kept alive artificially, then the decision to turn off the support would be made by a group of qualified people, not just one person playing God.

Making a decision to switch off life support because the child has no family would open up a whole can of worms around end of life decisions for disabled people without family and for the elderly.