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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 829023" data-attributes="member: 23950"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Joseph’s parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, have been fighting to bring the baby home to die ever since doctors at London Health Sciences Centre determined he was in a<strong> persistent vegetative state and recommended he be taken off life</strong> <strong>support.</strong> LHSC refused to perform a tracheotomy on Joseph, saying it would be invasive and futile, with too many complication risks.</span> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">Eventually, American organization Priests for Life arranged for Joseph to be airlifted out of London to the faith-based SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis. </span></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">There, doctors performed a tracheotomy — cutting a hole in the throat to open a direct airway — to allow Joseph, <span style="color: darkred">(the vegetable),</span> to spend <strong>his remaining</strong> <strong>days</strong> at home with family.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">That procedure could have been done here, but it just wasn't worth it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">And, I agree !</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">So be it !</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">It's not like the US doctors performed a miracle surgery as you seem to kind of put it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">This whole story has ethical meanings, that aren't even clear in the States either, (Rights to live or die in vegetation state or near death).</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">If that would have been me, and not the baby, I sure wouldn't want to be flown half across the continent, undergo a surgery, be returned to the original hospital, then with maybe some luck, be able to die at home !</span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">NOT FOR ME, or anyone that I like.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Might consider helping you, Lucy, to end your life that way !<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/smart.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smart:" title="Smart :smart:" data-shortname=":smart:" /></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klein, post: 829023, member: 23950"] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]Joseph’s parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, have been fighting to bring the baby home to die ever since doctors at London Health Sciences Centre determined he was in a[B] persistent vegetative state and recommended he be taken off life[/B] [B]support.[/B] LHSC refused to perform a tracheotomy on Joseph, saying it would be invasive and futile, with too many complication risks.[/COLOR] [/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]Eventually, American organization Priests for Life arranged for Joseph to be airlifted out of London to the faith-based SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis. [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#000000]There, doctors performed a tracheotomy — cutting a hole in the throat to open a direct airway — to allow Joseph, [COLOR=darkred](the vegetable),[/COLOR] to spend [B]his remaining[/B] [B]days[/B] at home with family.[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/COLOR][/LEFT][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] That procedure could have been done here, but it just wasn't worth it. And, I agree ! So be it ! It's not like the US doctors performed a miracle surgery as you seem to kind of put it. This whole story has ethical meanings, that aren't even clear in the States either, (Rights to live or die in vegetation state or near death). If that would have been me, and not the baby, I sure wouldn't want to be flown half across the continent, undergo a surgery, be returned to the original hospital, then with maybe some luck, be able to die at home ! NOT FOR ME, or anyone that I like. Might consider helping you, Lucy, to end your life that way !:smart: [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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