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Euthanasia ok or not? Seriously ill girl allowed to die
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by Amitjha | November 11, 2008 at 04:48 am
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It is very simple but genuine querry, can we kill every ill person person. what should be the criteria of illness, demantia, madness, even oldage persons wana dia, can we allow it?
A terminally ill girl has won the right to refuse treatment after a hospital ended its bid to force her to have a heart transplant.
Herefordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) dropped a High Court case after a child protection officer said Hannah Jones was adamant she did not want surgery.
Hannah, 13, of Marden, near Hereford, said she wanted to die with dignity.
Her father Andrew said he and his wife supported her decision but they had been upset by the PCT's actions.
He said Hereford County Hospital's child protection team had contacted them in February threatening to remove Hannah from their care if they did not bring her to hospital for the operation.
Hannah, who has a hole in her heart, had been offered a transplant in July 2007 but said she did not want to go through with it after taking advice from doctors, Mr Jones said.
She said the operation might not work, and if it did work, it would be followed by constant medication.
Hannah was interviewed by the child protection officer after the trust applied for a court order in February to force the transplant.
She said she wanted to stop treatment and spend the rest of her life at home and the PCT subsequently withdrew its legal action.
Mr Jones said: "The threat that somebody could come and forcibly remove your daughter from you against her wishes, against our wishes, was quite upsetting really."
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at 12:16 on November 11th, 2008
Yes sara is right, this is not euthanasia. The patient is exercising her right to refuse treatment and die a natural death - that is quite different than asking someone to interfere and speed along the dying process.
at 21:02 on November 11th, 2008
Thanks fpr comment,
Etymologically, it may not be euthenasia, but the death based on choice cant be justified, there are several such issues, such as HIV, lunatics, and old age, that need proper handling.The clear cut demarcation is required
My intention is just to find out , where this line should be?
at 20:44 on November 11th, 2008
As far as an individual is concrrned , that is fine, but every matter cant be decided after court says yes or no to such request.
People suffer because of illness , some of them are beyond recovery, What about HIV patients, who faces social boycott as well as sure death , and wants to die?
Can this society allow millions of such patients to die......offcourse medicalinical death?
at 08:13 on November 17th, 2008
This is an example of "Passive Euthanasia" whereby a patient (also may be applied to the phisician, family, etc) can refuse (withold) treatment which would otherwise prolong a life in exchange for a preceived better quality of life for the remainder of time the patient has.
The fact that the high court case was dropped, deeming this 13 year old to be rational and competent enough to make thos decision about her own life, then throws open the question of the level of responsibility of a person of such a young age in relation to other laws in the UK, eg. Smoking, alcohol, sex, etc.