religion and health care

[Renboy]

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Sitting at work pondering.
If a small child is admitted to a hospital and requires a blood transfusion at what age can they decide for themselves if they will/not get it? Lets assume the following scenario: Jehovah mother brings 6 year old son to hospital, boy needs a transfusion, mother says no, due to religious beliefs. At what age can the kid say eff that, I'm getting a transfusion to live?

 

[imnothng]

Sitting at work pondering.
If a small child is admitted to a hospital and requires a blood transfusion at what age can they decide for themselves if they will/not get it? Lets assume the following scenario: Jehovah mother brings 6 year old son to hospital, boy needs a transfusion, mother says no, due to religious beliefs. At what age can the kid say eff that, I'm getting a transfusion to live?

I believe it would be 14 or 16. However, the courts have and will step in before that.

 

[nfq]

There have been a few cases in the US recently where children have died because the parents didn't believe in vaccination. *facepalm*

 

[BuckWild]

There have been a few cases in the US recently where children have died because the parents didn't believe in vaccination. *facepalm*

I saw something last week where one child died already from not getting basic medical care and low and behold another sibling of the same family dies a few years later for the same reason. One would think that God showed them how not to do it the first time.

If God created man in his image then provided man the ability to think then does it not stand to reason that God provided care via the people in the medical professions.

 

[Renboy]

I believe it would be 14 or 16. However, the courts have and will step in before that.

So a 7 year old can't decide for them self if they want to live or die? But someone that believes God will fix everything can? Forget cancer, aids, heart disease, the medical community should dedicate all their resources to finding a cure for stupid.

 

[BuckWild]

So a 7 year old can't decide for them self if they want to live or die? But someone that believes God will fix everything can? Forget cancer, aids, heart disease, the medical community should dedicate all their resources to finding a cure for stupid.

There is none.
I wonder if you can use the same argument to off an elderly person and just say they told you and God told you to do it.
oh well Freeeedumb and Liberty

 

[FullMotoJacket]

If God created man in his image then provided man the ability to think then does it not stand to reason that God provided care via the people in the medical professions.

He wrote this book here and the book says, "He made us all to be just like him"
So, if we're dumb, then god is dumb and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

 

[BuckWild]

He wrote this book here and the book says, "He made us all to be just like him"
So, if we're dumb, then god is dumb and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

Man wrote the book.
Why would God write and which language would he have written that in?

What about the other God's? The Buddhist and Hindus predate Christianity by a thousand years iirc.

*I am just fun'n so don't anyone go freaking out.

 

[spray____]

If God created man in his image then provided man the ability to think then does it not stand to reason that God provided care via the people in the medical professions.

First heard a version of this on Boardwalk Empire an it made me laugh

A massive flood hit a small town near the Mississippi River. One levy in the river had broke, causing the flooding to occur while another levy was predicted to break in the hour. A man who owned a house along the river stood on the roof of his house as water had engulfed the rest of it. Water levels were slowly rising.

A rescue boat came to save the man from his house. The boat approached and the rescuers told the man another levy was about to break and the water would move over his house, sweeping him away to his drowning death. The man told the rescuers he did not need help because he believed in God and that God would save him.

Twenty minutes later, the rescuers returned, trying to help the man escape. Once again, the man waved off the rescuers saying that God would save him.

Ten minutes afterwards, the rescuers returned again, saying it would be the last time they could return because the levy was about to break. They asked him one last time to get on the rescue boat. He said once again that he believes in God and God would save him from the levy should it break. A few minutes after the rescuers left, the levy broke and the rushing waters engulfed the house, carrying away the man to his drowning death.


When the man reached the Heavens, he stood at the gates to enter. He told the men at the gates that he wanted to see God. When he saw God, he asked, "What happened? I thought you were going to save me? Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "I did try to save you. I sent the boat three times."

 

[RockerGuy]

Darwin wins again!
Doesn't matter how much we try there will be people who will die. Its inevitable. I really don't feel sorry for people who choose to die. In fact I do feel people should have the right to die

 

[imnothng]

So a 7 year old can't decide for them self if they want to live or die? But someone that believes God will fix everything can? Forget cancer, aids, heart disease, the medical community should dedicate all their resources to finding a cure for stupid.

Well in the hypothetical scenario where the doctor says this needle will cure you and if I don't use it you will die, the seven year if conscious at that point could say yes and the parents say no. Then the doctor will call the police and use the needle.

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