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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
It is very sad.
How does keeping him on a ventilator allow him to "die naturally, the way God intended" though? That ventilator is the exact opposite of natural. Hmmmm...
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But Gonzales says her son is on heavy doses of morphine and not in pain. She said her son does react to her. "I put my finger in his hand, and I'm talking to him, and he'll squeeze it," she says. "Then he'll open his eyes and look at me."
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With all due respect for the family's pain, heavy doses of morphine for a tiny baby are hardly natural, either. |
I'm generally a pull-the-plug sort of person for PVSs etc, but if this kid is responding to touch, let him be. Pull the plug when he is not longer able to be aware of his surroundings.