If your closest person be it your child, wife or parent were in the hospital and the drs say if the next 24 hrs passes he might live but no guarantees they did all they can what do you do and who do you turn to. Drs gave up, medicine can't do anything how do you spend these upcoming 24 hours and in whose hands is the soul of your loved ones? Are you so cool you just wait and see (please imagine the situation)
2007-01-30 07:51:20 · 48 answers · asked by samah a 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have been in this situation. No god.
2007-01-30 07:55:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 2⤋
I would spend the next 24 hrs by that persons side. Make sure that treatment continues till the end and make that person as comfortable as possible. I don't believe in the "soul" there might be some kind of energy but I am not sure.
In the old testament of the bible the meaning of nephesh's root word is "to breathe."
The word soul is mistranslated is both the old and new testament of the bible. You can look it up.
2007-01-30 08:04:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is a medical situation. I trust the medical professionals, and if they have done all they can do, there is nothing left to do but keep that person company and love them until they die. What soul? Will I spend those 24 hours convincing myself that there is more to them than their physical body? No. It has nothing to do with being cool, it has to do with living with reality. I've seen death. It sucks, it's sad. It hurts, but imagining the "soul" in the hands of a non-existent deity is just wishful thinking.
2007-01-30 07:59:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 04:59:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still atheists in hospitals. Would I spend even part of those 24 hours praying - no. After all, if there is a god who could cure my loved one then it follows that he was the one who put my loved one into the hospital.
I have gone through the death of my father from Alzheimer's disease. If anything, watching him die pushed me permanently away from the whole idea of god.
If there was a creator who created the diseases that plague mankind or even if there was an omnipotent being who could eliminate the more debilitating diseases but chooses not to. And if that being then decided to arbitrarily save some and watch others die horribly. Then that being is not worthy of worship. The incarnation of such a being would be Josef Mengele, not Jesus Christ.
2007-01-30 08:01:49 · answer #5 · answered by Dave P 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Truthfully i would wait as patiently as possible and hope that they make it through. I know that superstitions such as prayer do absolutely nothing to affect human health and i would not waste my time with them. If i felt i had to do ANYTHING to help the situation i would get on the Internet and research the condition to see if there is anything i could suggest to the doctors or ask if they had thought about. If you are trying to find out if i would turn to religion in a time of great stress the answer is a resounding NO.
2007-01-30 08:03:20 · answer #6 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well that would be my wife. If my wife were in such a state in a hospital you could bet that I wouldn't leave her side. I would rely on my friends and family for emotional support. If she died, I would be devastated and rely on them even more. I would never forget her, but I hope I would be able to move on with my life and possibly one day find another woman to care about and share my life with.
As to her soul, I don't believe in the idea of a soul. When and if my wife dies in such a situation her body stops functioning and becomes decaying matter. What was important about her, the things that I cared most about were her smile and her voice and her personality. Those things would exist only in my memories of her.
Thanks for being such a downer.
2007-01-30 08:07:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
That did happen to me... I told my Gramma I loved her and I held her hand as did all of my family... we gave her all our love while we still could and when she died we cried. I am not "so cool you just wait and see" I am realistic and I realize that worrying about whether or not souls exist and praying to something I dont believe in is ridiculous in the face of inevitability. I am not so childish as to reject death and frantically pray it doesnt happen... death is a part of life, it happens to all of us and no amount of prayer, gods or religion has ever been able to stop death from happening... I didnt waste my last hours with my gramma praying to some god for a miracle because I much preffered spending my time telling her how much I loved her and how much I would miss her...
2007-01-30 08:28:50 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is ridiculous to assume any atheist would pray. Hoping is not the same as prayer. Atheists can still wish things would change, but deep inside we KNOW whether they get better or not is not due to us but due to the care the doctors have put in, and how severe the injury is. I would try and spend time with my friend. Appreciate what life he's got left.
2007-01-30 08:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by serf m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll give you a better one.
In 2003 I almost died as a result of a car accident. At NO time did I worry about some imaginary afterlife or some magical sky-pixie. What I DID worry about was how my family would be looked after. I made sure my will and my affairs were in order, just in case I did die.
But I did'nt and that's no thanks to your invisible and imaginary friend in the sky. Why? Because he is non-existent. Why waste your valuable time and calories worrying about what it may or may not think about you?
So, trust me, I've thought about it.
2007-01-30 07:59:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I spend the 24 hours trying to comfort the person. If they want to pray, that's what we do. If they don't, we don't. At the end, it's not about me and if she wants to believe in silly sky fairies and it brings her comfort, than it would be cruel to deny her that in the end.
Either way, it doesn't change my knowledge that it's all a delusion and her "soul" is in her own hands.
2007-01-30 07:59:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋