away their freewill to choose?
2007-09-10 17:42:19 · 19 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, but I fail to see how what they're doing is any better than suicide. After all, to willfully commit suicide involves doing something that you know will conclude in your death. Held to that standard, ignoring medical treatment for a fatal disease is about the same thing as continuing to pull that trigger or draw that knife. You are very willingly killing yourself. And if that's a sin... and you go to Hell for committing sins... 1+1=2, and A leads to B equals C.
Of course, there have been some who have taken it a step further and into murder: They prevent their own children from gaining medical treatments because it just might be against God's will. *Rolls eyes* We live in the Age of Enlightenment, eh?
2007-09-11 00:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-28 19:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is there 'freewill'?!?
A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness. The doctors told her that she would be luck to live 2yrs. A mere hour after getting this news, she was involved in a fatal car accident.
I know people that have smoked 3 packs a day of cigarettes, eat everything 'wrong', and have lived into their 90s.
I also knew a guy that did everything 'right'--diet, exercise, didn't drink or smoke, and died at 27yo from a heart attack.
From the first breathe we take, humans have a finite time. Death is the ONLY for sure thing that each and every one of us will experience...hehehee we just don't know when or how.
2007-09-10 17:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by Lion Jester 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wrote that the medical advice was ignored. All people have a right to an advocate if they are confused. A person can refuse to go on a respirator if they are in an accident. This requires forms to be filled before they get into an accident. This is used for organ donors.
A doctor can not decide to be negligent.
2007-09-10 18:29:29 · answer #4 · answered by Linda C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't exactly understand the question. If you mean that a person who COULD live is ignoring medical advise that could save their lives and this is a person i love, then I WOULD take away their free will and choose for them. IF the possibility were slim I would allow them to do as they wish.
Now on a theological level, if you're asking if it's OK for a person who is dying to refused medical treatment and died, would this be suicide, I would say no. Speaking as a Catholic and with the Catechism behind me, it is not suicide to refuse treatment and die. It is however suicide and a mortal sin to stop BASIC things that sustain life, such as eating and hydration.
2007-09-10 17:52:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medical advice of dieting? or an operation? or taking medicine?
An operation or taking medicine for mental stability are too important to ignore. Dieting I can ignore.
Wow, a persons free will is something I try hard not to restrict. This person, or his/her family/friends can't find a reason to want to live?
Ignoring an operation and being in pain to die is preferable to life?
Death is not logical over medical advances.
I'm so confused: logical to love life, take advantage of all medical advances - vs - a persons free will to live as they want.
I choose life, screw em - they can be mad and hate me as they live to 100. Maybe being mad will give them the reason to live, to dance and spit on my grave.
Life should be the choice.
They will get their free will back after the operation or medicine takes effect. They can commit suicide healthy if they want - later.
I am having a problem understanding how anyone can think of death over life, sorry to babble so much. As depressed as I am life is too amazing to choose death. Man my brain hurts.
2007-09-10 18:27:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No; certainly not.
There are means to prolong life physically, but at times these means devalue the quality of life. What life is it when there is no joy, or capacity for normalcy? As long as a person has their faculties, they have every right to refuse medical treatment. Such refusal is protected by law, by the way, although it can be contested.
2007-09-10 18:00:36 · answer #7 · answered by Jack B, sinistral 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if they are an adult then I would have to say no,their freewill is God given I have no right to try to change that,but if it is a child it is the responsibility of the adults to make the decision
and they should try to make the right decision as the adults well be responsible to God for what ever decisions they make for a child
2007-09-10 19:23:15 · answer #8 · answered by hmm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what the diagnosis was / is and if it were terminal,i would continue to live as i have until the end,as life
is short enough now!! Once you have left this planet you are along time dead ,and there will be no return if there was where are my two young brothers !!
2007-09-10 18:01:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would depend on whether they were mentally ill.
But if someone refuses chemotherapy or surgeries/treatments that would severely handicap their lives, I think it would be up to them whether to pursue such advice. Quality of life is better than quantity, after all.
2007-09-10 17:47:17 · answer #10 · answered by Rin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋