Re: heroin
- From: Richard Corfield <Richard.Corfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:02:57 +0100
On 2008-04-18, michael falconer <hermeneutika777@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Its like watching someone die......has anyone ever watched a loved one die?
My mother died of cancer.....she went down to about 6 stone......it was
aweful.....she was in pain all the time and on constant morphine to stop the
pain.....and we all watched on completely helpless as our beloved mum was
wracked with pain and there was nothing we could do.....of course the church
in its infinite wisdom just said these things happen......almost as good as
so what.....i mean if one cannot derive comfort from God and the Church at
the time of one own mothers extremly painful departure from this
world...when can you??? Never is the answer i guess.....everyone said that
after mum had died that at least her sufferings were over.....and the
terrible thing was that we all agreed.......
It is a terrible thing to see. I've seen it.
As for philosophically handling it, well that depends on you. It sounds
like you loved her and, maybe though sad that she is gone, it is at
least good that her suffering has ended.
It was handy for medicine to try at least to mitigate the suffering,
or would it be better for medicine to have stepped back and probably
she'd have died sooner but not in a nice way? That's one of those hotly
debated topics in this country. There are strong arguments on both sides.
When the cancer becomes unstoppable medicine switches to pain management
and maybe slowing down the cancer to prolong life. It depends on factors
such as quality of life with and without that treatment. I expect that
the doctors will have tried to feed her until the cancer itself caused
failure in the body, rather than say starvation which would be the case
in the 'wild'. Most cancer patients lose their weight in the end despite
efforts to maintain it.
I've seen people questioning why their god doesn't do anything about
this. I don't know the answer to that one, at least an answer that
works within a theistic context. Those birds and animals that the bible
talks about being 'clothed by God' probably get a quicker exit, becoming
rapidly too weak to escape predators.
So perhaps the best thing is to accept that these things happen and
try our best to work with what we have. It isn't nice though, to lose a
loved one and to see a loved one suffer. Grief is something that we all
take time to deal with. Painful loss can come back to us long after.
Anyone who has witnessed or experienced horror can more acutely feel
that. Otherwise we wouldn't be human.
- Richard
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