Reply #46: Seventeen years ago... [View All]

[agingdem]

my father had kidney surgery, hemorrhaged during the night, blood pressure dropped to almost nothing, and though there was an attempt to intubate him, he was too long without oxygen and essentially brain dead. Over the next week, EEGs were performed as well as stimuli tests, and it was determined that there was no brain activity to speak of. Now what? We (my mother, sister, and I) had to decide if he should be denied life support (what a ridiculous contradiction in terms!). After much agony the decision was made to take him off the respirator. In less than 24 hours his body joined his brain in death. Would I make the same decisions again...you bet I would. Now, my question to Bush, Frist, Delay, etc. is this...have you lost your collective minds?