Romans922
Puritan Board Professor
Another thread got me thinking about this (and I mean no disrespect to anyone who might disagree with me or who has just made decisions about this) issue of the end of life and the use of medicine to bring comfort.
Sometimes in the use of using the medicine to bring comfort it places the person receiving the medicine in many different scenarios (because of the medicine that is bringing comfort):
1) coma (spelling?)
OR
2) Not aware of one's faculties
3) there could be more but I am unaware
If such medicines at the end of life to bring comfort cause a coma or cause one no longer to be aware of their faculties, should such medicines be used?
If possible, shouldn't we be aware of what is going on? Shouldn't we want to have control of our faculties as we near death (if possible)?
Sometimes in the use of using the medicine to bring comfort it places the person receiving the medicine in many different scenarios (because of the medicine that is bringing comfort):
1) coma (spelling?)
OR
2) Not aware of one's faculties
3) there could be more but I am unaware
If such medicines at the end of life to bring comfort cause a coma or cause one no longer to be aware of their faculties, should such medicines be used?
If possible, shouldn't we be aware of what is going on? Shouldn't we want to have control of our faculties as we near death (if possible)?