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I found it a nauseating video and wonder who it is for? Like much that passes for a ‘Christian’ viewpoint, it seems to be a good deal of wishful thinking. As a former palliative care social worker, a care worker and someone with a friend who is disabled and probably would not now be born, today, with pre-birth screening, I still find this video distasteful. Some Christians hold themselves up as ‘pro-life’ at any cost, but I don’t really think they realise the implications of this or how their theology is contradictory. I am an active lobbyist for and supporter of disabled people’s rights, I am passionate about people receiving appropriate care in hospital and I am against active euthanasia. But this video repulses me, mainly because it makes it all too simple.
The question of whether medical technology and advance drug treatments that keep people alive is really God’s will is not asked. People are oh so clear when it comes to abortion – the termination of a natural life; but seem rather vague when it comes to the artificial extension of a life.
I am happy to be educated in this matter – though I would prefer this education only to come from someone who has at least (like me) wiped another adult’s bottom – or someone living with profound disability or terminal illness.
I have spent many years working with the profoundly disabled, the chronically sick and the terminally ill aged from sixteen upwards and I can say, hand on heart, that sometimes, death is preferable to life at any price.
It might be that this video is too simplistic to cover the dizzying array of heart-breaking complex situations, but that doesn’t mean it’s not applicable and encouraging in a great deal of circumstances.
The question of whether medical technology and advance drug treatments that keep people alive is really God’s will is not asked.
This is one of the greatest ethical dilemmas of our time and is being tackled by many, not least in theo-ethical circles.
People are oh so clear when it comes to abortion – the termination of a natural life; but seem rather vague when it comes to the artificial extension of a life.
None of this is ‘clear cut’ as you suggest, you are criticising a parody that most of us do not subscribe to.
I spent many years clearing up human shit, vomit (the black stuff also) phlegm and so forth. I’ve also worked with the terminal ill and have been confronted with such harrowing examples as a 21 year old dying mother who had to sit through a social services meeting to decide where her little daughter would live after her death.
I have a profound, life-long illness, from which there will be no reprieve.
And yet, I found this video encouraging, uplifting and hopeful.
March 26th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
That made me cry. Beautiful video – thanks for posting it. Are you ok?
March 26th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Really glad you liked the video, it really was timely for me. Just a little down right now, I’ll bounce back. Thanks for asking.
March 26th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
I always think “This too will pass” and that there will be good things to enjoy in the future.
March 26th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
I found it a nauseating video and wonder who it is for? Like much that passes for a ‘Christian’ viewpoint, it seems to be a good deal of wishful thinking. As a former palliative care social worker, a care worker and someone with a friend who is disabled and probably would not now be born, today, with pre-birth screening, I still find this video distasteful. Some Christians hold themselves up as ‘pro-life’ at any cost, but I don’t really think they realise the implications of this or how their theology is contradictory. I am an active lobbyist for and supporter of disabled people’s rights, I am passionate about people receiving appropriate care in hospital and I am against active euthanasia. But this video repulses me, mainly because it makes it all too simple.
The question of whether medical technology and advance drug treatments that keep people alive is really God’s will is not asked. People are oh so clear when it comes to abortion – the termination of a natural life; but seem rather vague when it comes to the artificial extension of a life.
I am happy to be educated in this matter – though I would prefer this education only to come from someone who has at least (like me) wiped another adult’s bottom – or someone living with profound disability or terminal illness.
I have spent many years working with the profoundly disabled, the chronically sick and the terminally ill aged from sixteen upwards and I can say, hand on heart, that sometimes, death is preferable to life at any price.
Regards:
Peter
March 26th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
@Peter.
It might be that this video is too simplistic to cover the dizzying array of heart-breaking complex situations, but that doesn’t mean it’s not applicable and encouraging in a great deal of circumstances.
The question of whether medical technology and advance drug treatments that keep people alive is really God’s will is not asked.
This is one of the greatest ethical dilemmas of our time and is being tackled by many, not least in theo-ethical circles.
People are oh so clear when it comes to abortion – the termination of a natural life; but seem rather vague when it comes to the artificial extension of a life.
None of this is ‘clear cut’ as you suggest, you are criticising a parody that most of us do not subscribe to.
I spent many years clearing up human shit, vomit (the black stuff also) phlegm and so forth. I’ve also worked with the terminal ill and have been confronted with such harrowing examples as a 21 year old dying mother who had to sit through a social services meeting to decide where her little daughter would live after her death.
I have a profound, life-long illness, from which there will be no reprieve.
And yet, I found this video encouraging, uplifting and hopeful.
Isn’t that odd.