Do you personally feel that severe brain damage is WORSE THAN DEATH at least for!


Question: Question #2, would you want to be a BURDEN on your family if you were severely brain damaged...you know basically very retarded? Just answer the questions please...and i thank you!!!


Answers: Question #2, would you want to be a BURDEN on your family if you were severely brain damaged...you know basically very retarded? Just answer the questions please...and i thank you!!!

I would prefer death because i would a burden on my family. I wont enjoy life in a vegatative state.

I know someone who was in a horrible car accident 3 years ago. He was on life support for 6 months and finally he woke up and is now a vegetable. His mother refused to take him off of life support when even the doctors told her there was no hope. She ended up quitting her job and now looks after her son full time plus has a nurse come by everyday to help her. In my opinion, it's wrong god forbid if that happened to me I would rather die. I wouldn't want my family to have to watch me suffer especially if there was no hope for me. Everyone in my family agrees that if this ever happened to them just let them go. God works in mysterious ways and sometimes we don't always understand why he does what he does but all I know is everything happens for a reason.

#1 - yes
#2 - no

Yes--My mom had that before her death.

No--I don't ever want to be a burden on my family.

I think if there is no hope for you, then death would be better because, your family would suffer...the pain would not go away because seeing you in that state is like seeing you dead in a coffin its...its like a funeral that never ends. I just causes more pain for your family...and I an also fo organ donation...if you dont have a chance let someone else have one.

OK here's the deal 1- Don't equate a person with severe brain damage as retarded!!!!! The correct term is developmentally delayed!!!! And there is a difference I know as both the mother and sister of a person who's developmentally delayed and as the sister of a brother who was brain damaged. There is a vast difference between the two. My brother was in a motorcycle accident in Jan 1969 and was in a coma until the end of March 1969 he could not interact with you at all. He just layed there. Unless You are the most severely developmentally delayed you can interact with people. Even new born infants interact with other people. People who are in vegetative states don't. Having someone in a pervasive vegetative state is very difficult you always have the hope that they will come out of it. It's very hard to move forward with your own life because you're caught up in the care and needs of this other person. My mother who was a nurse who as a mother hated the idea of her son dying but who as a nurse knew that his chances of ever becoming lucid again was next to nothing. When he died in March we were all upset but kind of relied that he wouldn't have to spend the rest of his life in bed attached to tubes. This is why I have a Power of Attorney, living will and a DNR order in my medical records.





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