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发表于 2011-10-9 19:11
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Hw:
The family of M, a 51-year-old woman, she was fiercely independent, very active according to her sister until she contracted a virus eight and a half years ago, and became very severely brain-damaged, they have been told she would not be allowed to die, now this is a landmark ruling because although she had families coming here in the past and asking judges to withdraw food and hydration from their loved one, and in essence allowing M to die, M's always been in a persistent vegetative state with no awareness of what's going on around them.The problem from Mr. Justice Baker in this case, what he describes is tragic, a one with devastating consequences for the family or M who are not allowed to be named, she and her family are on anonymity and dignity, which that she is what is described as being a minimally conscious state, now, that’s only been a medical diagnosis since 2002.It's very difficult to define it exactly, but what it means is on occasion, erratically, the patient will show some kind of deliberate response now, the family arguing that M had no quality of life, no enjoyment, no dignity, they even believe she feels pain, and the suffering, they say she cannot communicate meaning thing but the official solicitor appointed by the court on her behalf strongly opposed that, she said she understood the family genuinely love M, and were motivated by her best interest, but she argued that, in fact, M could possibly communicate by the use of switch and could feel respond to touch, now the family say that M made very clear before she became ill, and in fact she would never want to be relying on other to continue living a life depended on others, even if she had mental faculties, but the judge in this case has decided that that she simply can not allowed her food and hydration to be withdrawn, and part of this will be the problem with defining the state, but patient M remains in, she is cared for in a nursing home in the North of England. but judge has ruled that her family, despite being motivated by love for patient M, can not be allowed to ask doctors to let her die. |
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