The use of "In the arms of an Angel" at funerals really grinds my gears. Does no-one actually listen to lyrics anymore? It's a lovely song but it's about heroin addiction and not remotely appropriate for anyone's funeral (unless they were an actual smack addict of course).
You contradicted yourself multiple times. Read the thread to see how much your worries have already been discussed. You don't understand what you're trying to attach to Archie's case. A blue and dead body is overall less disturbing than fucking necromancy of a body for four months to avoid it turning blue in the first place. Make your peace with death, it happens to EVERYONE, we will all see someone expire in more gruesome and upsetting ways than what happened here for Death 2: Electric Boogaloo, and society's desperate avoidance of death or trying to fuck with its process is why we have this thread in the first place. It's not about being logical or smart, it's about being realistic and at peace with the nature of our existence.
If they were looking to cut costs they wouldn't waste all that money on the very expensive machines and chemicals used to keep him "alive" all this time...
What do you think happens in organ donation? Exactly what you just described. Surgeons and nurses pull organs out of “technically alive” patients. No one thinks that’s horrific because we all know the donor patient has already died.
Okay so you have no issues with necrophilia I imagine then.
A mercy killing would be redundant in this case. Archie had experienced brain stem death and his dead brain stem had been forced down his spine by his necrotic brain. There would have been no perceptual difference if morphine had been administered, because there was zero electrical activity in his (rotting) brain. He couldn't suffer because he couldn't feel or perceive anything. Giving his body a morphine overdose would have achieved the exact same thing as withdrawing his ventilator with no benefit.
You are being a complete and utter retarded nigger of the highest order. None of your extreme whataboutisms have any relevance and you continue to show you'd rather postulate about your own NHS gripes than contribute something both informed and valuable. They spent quarter of a million pounds on going above and beyond their duty to reanimate a decaying body because of people like you and Hollie, and rhetoric like yours is what robbed children of intensive care in PICU. Literally fuck off.
I have no idea what you're referring to here. The NHS is broke, and yet it spent between £250k-750k keeping a dead kid from rotting for 4 months. However you look at it, that is a complete waste of money.
They didn't do it because it was "cheaper" or because they were afraid of legal action, they did it because it's what fucking doctors do, dude.
It was a mercy kill. He passed peacefully in mere minutes after they removed his ways of assisted living, and he felt no pain. What the fuck more do you want?
Again, this is illegal. You get 14 years in the slammer for doing that. They can't do active euthanasia. The Assisted Dying Bill is in the House of Lords at the moment to try and change this. People have been arguing in favour of active euthanasia for centuries but it's kept getting blocked, often over religious objections.
It is standard practice to give morphine and midazolam in all withdrawals, but in his case, it wasn't needed because he had no blood flow to his brain for 4 months. They were pretty certain he was dead. Also, the family would have just accused the hospital of euthanising him with drugs. As the family of Alfie Evans did.
Do you also want funeral homes to shoot dead bodies before they bury them, just to make sure they are completely dead? What about animal bodies - do you usually stab a steak before you cook it to make sure it's not still alive?
Nigga do you think it's somehow hard to determine if something is dead? They are fucking doctors, they can tell. Their practice is not just asking someone if they are alive and calling the time if the patient doesn't respond...
Dunno, since Clapton wrote it about his kid who, er, also died as a direct result of inadequate parental supervision, it would actually be really fitting.
You missed the most obvious one, Hanging Around by The Stranglers.
