Morbid Dilemma x22342423
 

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.

no

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

What would be the point in that

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.

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.

No.

Yes, it would save electricity.

No, definitely couldn't.

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

No, definitely couldn't.

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

What the ****, No.

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

gurrl :laugh2:

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

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

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

:joker::joker:

no that would be murder

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

:joker::joker::joker:

but seriously why would anybody do that :conf2:

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

Not really a decision you should be making.

what would you do Ninastar

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

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

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

Jedward Fever's sister arises from the Ashes

inspiring

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

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

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.

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.

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

he might not rememberer any thing

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

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

: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.

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

Absolutely, no way could I do that at all.