This husband must be kept alive says his wife.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-death-line-faith.htm

What's going off here,a wife is going to the High Courts to plea that her husband is kept alive, yet we have only just witnessed Tony Nicklison losing his case for being allowed to die?

/// A disabled man who is in a vegetative state must be kept alive for as long as possible so he can have a 'good' Muslim death, his wife has pleaded. ///

/// Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which is based in Oldham, is seeking a court declaration that it would not be in his best interests to offer him ventilation or resuscitation if there was 'a life-threatening event'. ///

[friedgreentomato]

So what is your point?

[sandyRoe]

If this shows anything, it is that people are very different. Both sad cases.

[2sp_]

The link doesn't work, AOG.

I'm not sure what your question is either?

[jno]

I suppose the distinction is between killing someone and just letting him die. Also that in one case a man sought to end his own life; in the other, a wife is acting on her husband's behalf.

[tonyav]

aog, the link is no good.

[boxtops]

It doesn't make sense to me - there is nothing I know of in the Koran about prolonging life unnecessarily. How they describe a good Muslim death, I don't know - the Imam could come and administer the equivalent of last rites as they switch off the machine. It baffles me.

[jno]

ah, I see in the header to that non-existent page the date "2004". None the less, it's still a fair question

[sandyRoe]

We're not being presented with the wife's actual words but rather The Mail's slant on them. Could be very different.

[albaqwerty]

if she wants him alive, then fine, I presume you don't want the British tax-payers to pay for it.
the link don't work btw.
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The page you have requested does not exist or is no longer available.'

[emmie]

can't get the link to work.

[ummmm]

My friend was in a coma for nearly a year. The doctors told his parents over and over again that he was brain dead and the life support should be turned off.

He woke up.

[emmie]

that is why i don't believe it when the doctors say there is no hope, switch off the machines, there is always hope.

[QueenOfGoths]

Here is a better link and also gives more details

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...d-manchester-19322413

The trust didn't help themselves by contravining their own policy by putting a DNR order on his notes without consulting the family. For their part it sounds like they simply want to try to keep a loved one alive even though it may go against medical advice.

Not a pleasant situation for anyone to be in

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....e-faith.html?ITO=1490

Sorry about the link see if this works.

[dave50]

Strange isn't it that if it was a family dog who was in the same state it would be considered cruel NOT to put it to sleep. Why the difference?

[hc4361]

There is a huge difference in keeping somebody artificially alive, who would die if the machines are turned off; and killing somebody who is able to breathe and digest food.

[emmie]

QofG, that happened to my o/h, there was a DNR notice put on his bed, but no one in the family and o/h, had said they could or should.

[Gromit]

They are two entirely different cases.

Absolutely no conclusion can be drawn from trying to connect them.

If this is an attempt to show the muslim faith in poor light, or cast the wife as wasting money, then it is a miserable failure of a question.

[eyethenkyew]

I don't agree in this case that the guy should continue to be kept alive by artificial means despite the claim by his wife that as a 'good Muslim' he wants to live as long as possible.

Fair enough, but this appears not to be 'living', i.e. unable to do so under his own 'steam' and only kept alive because of modern medical technology.

We all have 'to go' sooner or later and, very difficult and traumatic though it is for his wife and family, the merciful thing would be to turn off the life support machine.