boondocks
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I've had a long interest in biomedical ethics, the right to die, the issue of physician-assisted suicide, etc, so I always find the "hard" cases at the very razor's edge of life and death (and law, and morality) to be fascinating.
I THOUGHT I "knew what I thought" about the Jahi McMath case a few years ago. (That the family was making poor choices, and their daughter was "dead-dead."). 4 years on, and after reading this fascinating article, I'm still sure I wouldn't want to be "living" the way this young girl is. But I'm now far less sure that the line between life and death isn't a lot more complex and curious than I thought.
It's a long read, but worth it. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... ean-to-die
I'm still mulling this over....
I THOUGHT I "knew what I thought" about the Jahi McMath case a few years ago. (That the family was making poor choices, and their daughter was "dead-dead."). 4 years on, and after reading this fascinating article, I'm still sure I wouldn't want to be "living" the way this young girl is. But I'm now far less sure that the line between life and death isn't a lot more complex and curious than I thought.
It's a long read, but worth it. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018 ... ean-to-die
I'm still mulling this over....