This happened quite a while ago, but I just thought deep into it recently. We were discussing in GP, say a relative or family member has become a vegetable, and the doctor doesn't know when he's gonna wake up, or he might not at all. So what are you supposed to do? Pull the plug or wait? If he's in critical condition, do you keep shocking him so that he keeps alive or just let him die?

My GP teacher asked us to discuss in terms of religion, and a few answered. I was sort of in a desperate need to pee, so I couldn't afford to focus my energies thinking. And I need to warn you now that the subsequent paragraphs might be of a certain level of abstacticity, even I could not find the right words to describe my view.

Now if someone is gonna die soon, his heart is weakening. The doctor asks the family members if they want to keep him alive. So the doctors zaps the guy(let's call him X) already in pain and about to die. You must remember that he is very close to his family, imagine waiting for someone close to leave the earth. My classmates view was to let the him die. I'm sure they understood how painful it would be for the family members, but subjecting the dying X to more pain is even worse, not to mention inhumane. The few Christians said that it's God will for them to leave the earth, so the family shouldn't try to control God's timing.

However, I do not totally agree with their point of view. God is almighty, and everything he plans happens. He is never wrong, and the time X dies is what God has already decided. So by saying that the family members try to control God's timing and manages to do it by zapping him, does that mean that God's plan has sheared a little since they decided to shock him so that he is alive for a few more seconds? I believe that God's plan has never gone wrong and will never do, so what I'm saying is that the family members trying to revive X is also part of what God has decided to happen already. Therefore, we cannot say what is right and what is wrong based on moral, emotional issues, but just know that it is supposed to happen. I'm not saying that when people do wrong things, they are right, just that the wrong choices they make were already decided, just that with their freedom of choice, they cause suffering. Now I know it sounds quite contradicting, but that can branch out to a totally different topic, and I promise it will come once I know more about it.

Okay, you people might be frustrated now that I didn't give a definite answer, so here's my personal choice. If I had the power to, I'll let him go. Because I know that he will be meeting our Creator, and God just wants him back, plus the suffering he would experience and all that mentioned above. If the person is a non-Christian, then I'll ask God for the choice to be made. Then now you may ask why I will not consult God if the person is a Christian. Well, actually I would, but at least if I didn't there's no harm done since life on earth is just a short stage of his life, the rest are in heaven. And if God wanted him alive, he won't die.

Something else I would like to post about is the death sentence. But since I have maths and econs to do, It'll wait. Remind me if I don't do it soon ok?
spoke at : 10:38:00 PM