Once again... after having a room for 1 month (after ORD :p)... I'm roomless again. My brother's friend from japan is the new resident haha. Quite cool though, she owns a hill in japan!
Anyways, submitted the trackers registration form today. Whether I'll be going or not, it'll be in God's hands I guess? Saw jeremy during his lunch time and haha he look pretty reliefed being away from his kids lol.
Was reading 'On a pale horse' today and am still reading it. It's about a guy called Zane (sounds like my friend Zames) andhe's a guy who killed death and had to take his place... taking the souls of the world. It's quite a warped reality where science and magic is incorporated into everyday lives meaning that comfortable cars are a mode of travel as well as flying carpets. Even though it is in like an alter-reality, the themes and undertones are very earthly. The flaws of beuracracies; moral and ethical struggles; the lure of sin and the futility of following it. Then there are warped aspects where incantations such as Death, Time, Fate, War and Nature are actually offices held by people (like Zane who took the role of Death). Anyway one moral issue which stood out for me was the one related to euthanesia/ mercy killing.
If a person now... being sustained only by life sustaining equipment eg. heart-lung machine has absolutely no hope of recovery and is in agony to the point where he/she wishes for death instead of living, does it make it right then for the person to die by his/her choice?
If a so-called deemed terminally ill patient is kept alive only to die resulting in like a huge financial burden for his family/ loved ones is it 'better' to die then? What then... if the person would recover by a miracle the next day but you ended his/her life today?
Just yesterday though, there was a report of a little girl of 7, Dora, who was on the heart-lung machine, more specifically the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Ecmo) machine for 21 days! as quoted from AsiaOne 'The surgeon revealed that in Singapore, the longest survival under Ecmo was 21 days for an adult patient. But for a 7-year-old to last that long on the machine would prove to be too much.' And this little girl of 7 managed to survive and recover from this ordeal! Showing improvement only on the 20th day. As a doctor once said... healthcare was meant to improve the quality of life... not the quantity of life. So Euthanesia? Stem cells? Food for thought...
Anyways... the amazing article can be found here.
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