How would you feel about ceasing medical treatment? After all, treating someone who is terminally ill is keeping someone on Earth long after God has called them.
Christ and so many of the Prophets healed people with God's power; He wants people to be healed, and that includes slowly and carefully using scientific knowledge, as well as quickly and miraculously. I know there are some sects who feel that they must refuse all medical treatment, but I think that's silly. I think it's equally silly to use heroic measures to keep someone alive on life-support when there's no hope of recovery, barring a miracle. And I thank God that we didn't have to face that kind of choice with my mother, she died so quickly there was nothing anyone could have done.
To put it in a more personal way, if you asked me to kill you, I couldn't do it. If you asked me to turn off your life-support when you were already dying, I probably could.
One of the reasons I love you is because you don't condemn people who make different choices. {hugs} "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Not my job to condemn. To inform, perhaps, but not to condemn. I am not the Judge of the world, God is.
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Christ and so many of the Prophets healed people with God's power; He wants people to be healed, and that includes slowly and carefully using scientific knowledge, as well as quickly and miraculously.
I know there are some sects who feel that they must refuse all medical treatment, but I think that's silly.
I think it's equally silly to use heroic measures to keep someone alive on life-support when there's no hope of recovery, barring a miracle. And I thank God that we didn't have to face that kind of choice with my mother, she died so quickly there was nothing anyone could have done.
To put it in a more personal way, if you asked me to kill you, I couldn't do it. If you asked me to turn off your life-support when you were already dying, I probably could.
One of the reasons I love you is because you don't condemn people who make different choices.
{hugs}
"Judge not, lest ye be judged." Not my job to condemn. To inform, perhaps, but not to condemn. I am not the Judge of the world, God is.