Arguments Against Life Support

Life comes with a lot of gifts, and parenthood is one of them. Creating someone with the person you love and watching them grow can be the greatest joy of ones’ life. When a child enters into the world parents commit to always protect them from the harsh realities of our world. Unforturentaly, tragic events take place every day that are out of ones’ control. Brain death is defined as a person no longer having neurological activity in the brain or brain stem. Meaning no electrical impulses are being sent between brain cells. When a person becomes brain dead they are placed on life support. Life Support is mechanism used to maintain life after the failure of one or more vital organs. When you are on life support the patient is monitored in the …show more content…
People who believe that parent should be able to keep their child on life support indefienlty main argument is that the science of consciousness is not black or white. They state scientist and doctors do not have a concrete way of understanding our consciousness and the development of the brain. Additionally, before a doctor can label a patient brain dead they have to have multiple nuergolist examine the patient. If professionals are not solid in declaring if someone is brain dead and need multiple opinions, then they are also not capable of declaring if someone will survive. This is a strong point, however, people think that patients will survive brain death based on miracles and not science. There hasn’t been one person in record that has survived brain death; and if they did “survive”, they were never really brain dead at all. Often times people confuse being brain dead with being in a coma, which are two compactly different things. This is a vast problem in health, because society is not aware of the true definition of someone being brain dead. Another argument one may have is that it’s the parents child, therefore, the hospital does not have a right to tell the family to discontinue life support. There is nothing wrong with having faith that your child will survive, but there has to be a certain point in which the family understands their child has passed. Like my argument stated earlier death is hard for everyone, but dragging out someone’s death is even tougher. I agree that it is the family’s child, and they should have the authority over their loved one concerning medical needs. However, if they are declared brain dead by doctors, they need to be wise enough in knowing the chances of