If you had a loved one dying with no chance of recovery?!
Question: Would you allow the attending doctors to administer drugs to lessen the pain and quicken the time of death to harvest the organs to save lives of another?
Answers: Would you allow the attending doctors to administer drugs to lessen the pain and quicken the time of death to harvest the organs to save lives of another?
Lessening the pain and keeping a patient comfort is the ultimate goal. Doctors do not kill off patients to save others. I'm sure if there was a chance for recovery for that loved one, the doctor and nurses would do everything possible to save them. God is the only person who decides when we actually die. If your loved one is getting ready to die, remember the last thing to go is there hearing so be sure to talk to them even if they don't respond. If they chose to be an organ donor then God bless them. Donated organs are precious gifts..
If the loved one was able to answer this question, I would ask them. If they were not able to answer, I think that if they were in pain and there was no hope, pain meds would be they way I'd go. I don't want anyone I love to suffer any more than they already have. I'd say goodbye and let go.
if they were a loved one wouldn't you want doctors administering drugs to lessen their pain anyway??
If the person donated his/her organs, and the person was in great pain with no chance at all of recovery, then, yes.
Yes, becasue it's very hard to see someone in pain specially if they are not going to make it. I have been there and I just cried my eyes out everyday. It's better for the patient and yourself. I also recomend to grive now than latter because it seems that a person that dies will not rest until you stop crying for them. I found in a dream....my brother who past away from drowning when he was only 14 came in my dream and said "don't cry for me, please let me rest". I did cry when I woke up, but that was the end of my nighmares after my brother past away. God bless you and your loved one.
My mom had an heart attack and was in comma in the ICU for about a month. Relatives said to remove her from life support but we didn't. She made it through and lived another 5 years.
The question is not how you, the docs, or anyone else wants or think
but how your loved one wants to lead his/her life
this is a hyperthetical Q and so my hyperthetical A is only if that is what they had indicated to me before their illness However I carry a donor card myself and would donate I do not however believe in th idea of taking organs unless the patient has agreed I would urge everyone to think about whether they might consider being a donor I would want my loved one to be given pain relief as much as he /she needed but not just so doctors could harvest their organs
I would do whatever it took to give my loved the one the best death possible. I have been involved in the decision with each of my parents and in-laws. In each case we chose to stop treatment, remove nutrition and hydration and administer necessary pain medications. In my fil's case this did include increased dosage of morphine to decrease the chance of seizures as the brain stem (no brain function due to blood clot passed during heart surgery) shut down.
None of my parents or inlaws organs were harvested (due to age or disease) so that was not a consideration for us, but in this case if by shortening your loved ones dying and alleviating their pain, their organs can be used to save other lives, IMO it is the ethically and morally correct decision to allow the administration of the drugs.