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Do you remember me posting about a little girl with next to no quality of life ?

At the time she was unable to see, needed to be fed through a tube and needed constant care. She had a lung infection at the time I think and her grandmother was really not wishing for the poor little girl to go on.

Five years on, I think, due to the miracle of modern medicine, the poor little girl has all the problems she had then, plus the need for morphine patches and other pain killers, with their accompanying complications that require ever stronger laxatives.

Each cold or bout of flu takes her longer to recover from and, loved and cherished as the little girl is, everybody is hoping for the next to be the last.

Wicked, I know.

Not wicked at all Sharron. I'll never understand why we allow humans to suffer when we call it a kindness to put animals out of their misery.

Kath. x

I agree, Kath .............. I also don't understand why we allow humans to suffer when it's a crime to do it to an animal.

Sharron ..... not wicked at all.

I get a tad anxious when human dignity & animal care are compared.

Hitler's organisation had little time for the sick person - physically or mentally. I doubt if his vile 'experiments' are ever to be considered again.

When they used to show those children who were being kept alive in a bubble or were having something done involving bone marrow, I can't remember the details, Fred used to say he thought they were just being kept alive to experiment on.

When there's no chance of recovery and no quality of life, then no Sharron it's not a wicked thought at all.

Nobody has mentioned the wholesale destruction of perfectly healthy babies in the womb for no particular reason.

The value of human life continues to be eroded by many means. Grotesque!

That is because it really is a different topic,Dermot.

Some of those 'babies' would be born severely disabled, Dermot.
This is the problem women in NI have.
Also, this thread isn't about unborn foetuses..

Dermot ...


this has nothing at all to do with that!

This is talking about people in pain and no hope of recovery or of living without pain.

That is not grotesque.


Let's keep talk of abortion out of this please. It has no part in this, nor has your belief or my belief in whether it is right or not.

I agree Sharron - two completely different topics that should NOT be mixed up.

Kath. x

This little girl now has two perfectly healthy sisters but they have been very carefully screened in the womb to avoid their being burdened with a life of pain.

My mother's last few months were terrible for her. At 99 years of age, bedridden and totally dependent on carers she had no desire for her life to be prolonged. If it had been legal, I am sure she would have welcomed release.

Mine was diabetic and suffering from bowel cancer.

She fell into a coma and Fred was obliged to call the doctor whose duty was to inject her with insulin so she could suffer another ten days.

My elder sister had a stroke and this affected her speach and strength on one side of her body. It also shot her immune system so had trouble fighting off any infection

Due to this she got some leg ulcers and these travelled up into her private area

She was hospitalised and she was in so much pain she had to have a general anaesthetic every other day to change the dressings
It developed into gangrene and was eating her away her inners between the vagina and bowel

She was in high doses of antibiotics but they knew it was terminal

She had to go through a month of pain and deterioration only for them to finally zonk her out on morphine so she passed away

Seeing her cry with the pain and her begging them to let her go cos she wanted to be with her hubby was heartbreaking

She knew she wasn't going to get better but she had a terrible time leading up to her death