JESUS WILL RETURN SOON AFTER ARIEL SHARON’S DEATH – Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister of Israel, has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a massive stroke on January 4, 2006. For the past seven years, a respirator and a feeding tube have kept him alive at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, Israel. He has never shown any reliable signs of awareness or consciousness. The stroke left the man once dubbed by Israelis as “the Lion of God” bedbound and technologically dependent on machines for his existence. Can Sharon come back? Many Israelis and his family fervently hope so but older patients, especially 84-year-olds who have been through two strokes and remained unresponsive for seven years, do not come back. Is he “in there”? Let’s hope not. Being trapped in your own body year after year unable to move anything or communicate in any way would be horrific. So what is the case for keeping Sharon alive? He is not dead—he has brain activity. Still, he may be suffering if he has any awareness of being trapped inside his own body. Prolonging his life may be causing incredible misery to him and others like him. The choice to keep Ariel Sharon alive is one that deserves respect but is also one that demands involvement—emotionally and fiscally. The choice to let him go also deserves respect. In this case, uncertain medical science can only give way to well-intentioned ethics. youtube/watch?v=k0DTT3u2JZ8 youtube/watch?v=I4-3G4xs8Hk
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:45:17 +0000
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