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August 4, 2008

Comatose Patient Glad Parents Didn't Listen to Doctors' Recommendation Of Euthanasia

Topics: Life Issues

He was declared brain dead with no brain function following an automobile accident eight years ago, and his parents were told he'd never be anything but a vegetable - he would be in a so-called persistent vegetative state. Sound familiar? (Think Terry Schiavo and many others).

His parents were told by his physicians to "pull the plug," but they didn't listen. They didn't follow the advice of his physicians, who like so many others these days, are in far too big a rush to write off newly unconscious patients as disposable, and consign them to death by cutting off life support before they have a chance to recover. The doctors' favorite method? Death by starvation and dehydration.

Today, Kevin Monk is alive:

[...] Opponents of assisted suicide have always said that legalizing the grisly practice would lead to euthanasia, where patients would be killed without their request or consent. A Wyoming man who was formally brain dead and comatose is glad that his parents didn't listen to doctors, who suggested taking his life.

[...] "Some of the doctors told Mom and Dad to just pull the plug," Monk said, upset to learn that now that he's recovering from his injuries. "Doctors are there to heal, not to give up."

Monk's mom, Janice, also talked with the newspaper about the prompting and the incorrect diagnosis that Monk would never recover and be in a so-called persistent vegetative state.

"We heard that for months," she said. "From every place we went, they told us he'd never be anything but a vegetable."

Wesley J. Smith, an author and attorney who specializes in end-of-life issues, said he warned about that attitude that it is better to die than live cognitively disabled when he wrote his book Culture of Death in 2001.

As pointed out in the article, once the law and medical ethics countenanced the dehydration of those in a persistent vegetative state and minimally conscious states based on quality of life considerations, our society began to declare that some lives not worth living. Many believe that we took the first step toward euthanasia when our society accepted the murder of the unborn.

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Posted by Richard at August 4, 2008 7:18 PM

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