Similar to how people medically sperged about the nature of the Palsy Pooner who was pooned out by her parents, can someone explain to me if people like this are even capable of... Consciousness?
Can't walk, talk, and is blind. Severe brain damage. Mother is shit, whole family is shit. Why keep the damn thing alive when they could've easily put it down the moment this all occurred? Is that harsh to say? Because if it is conscious, it's suffering. If it has any self awareness, it is in severe nonstop pain and completely devoid of basic human pleasures.
We have whole programs where people can euthanize themselves in various countries yet can't do the humane thing and euthanize someone who is bound to suffer in unimaginable ways their whole life with no ability to actually live.
The prognosis that is read off at these legal proceedings always leans to the worst case scenario for obvious reasons. In reality, without knowing specifics of the case, it's hard to even guess where the kid might be at today. It is actually entirely possible that with appropriate medical and therapeutic support, she was able to regain a lot of functions that the initial report sent to the court predicted she would lose permanently. These trajectories are far more common than you'd think, due to the extreme neuroplasticity of neonates.
A few outcomes that I would think are all plausible given the scant info provided:
-Kid is profoundly disabled, blind and wheelchair dependent, tube fed, medically fragile, possibly living in a nursing home or medical foster care.
- Kid is seriously disabled, but was weaned off the tube and can feed herself and has some degree of sight and maybe a little bit of recovered mobility. Maybe living in a normal family home and engaged in lots of support services and special ed.
-Kid has significantly impaired sight and mobility but has actually adapted as well as anyone could have ever hoped for. Extra medical appointments, will always need a little extra help, but can work towards some degree of self-sufficiency.
After the acute recovery period, anyone who is able to keep trucking 15 years with these conditions is not necessarily in a constant state of pain or suffering. Within the limitations- which will be the only way of life the kid can remember, so she won't be tormented by memories of how things used to be- the child will be able to enjoy play, learning, interactions with family friends and pets, so on and so forth, as anyone would hope to.
Why keep the damn thing alive
Once again I am asking what the actual fuck is wrong with the women on this forum.
Even if the sentiment is in some sense understandable, the phrasing reveals sociopathic tendencies as marked as those found in any troon or pooner.
Just because it upsets you to look at someone does not, in fact, mean that this person is better off dead.