In the essay, "When living is a fate worse than death," by Christine Mitchell, she wrote about a suffering 3 year old child named Charlotte who was born with too few brain cells to do anything else but breathe. At birth doctors removed most of her brain to avoid instant death due to her brain being in a sac outside her skull. Her parents, who were born and raised in Haiti, moved to the United States with hopes for a cure for their sick child. The new parents, encouraged the doctors to do all they could to save her. Not realizing that it would be the worse decsion they could make for their baby girl.
Doctors and nurses recommended the young parents that a Do Not Resuscitate order be stored in Charlottes chart. Mitchell wrote, "The nurses and doctors thought she should die peacefully"(480). For 16 months Charlotte was in and out of the hospital, ER and the pediatric nursing home. Her helpless body tried to flat line, each time doctors did all they could to stabilize her. Charlotte became weaker with each process. Charlotte's parents were optimistic now that there were no longer in a 3rd world country, where health insurance and health care doesn't exist to the poor. They were very candid about the situation so they denied the action for a DNR order. However, a DNR would have prevented unwanted pain and procedures for …show more content…
If doctors had an alternative medical treatment, she wouldn’t have suffered the in the manner that she did. If her parents could've accepted the extent of their daughter health, they could have had closer with her death been by her side the night she passed. We never want to see a loved one terminally ill or make a difficult decision on whether or not sign a DNR but we also don’t want them to suffer. There comes a time in our lives where we have to think of others no matter how much it will hurt
Doctors and nurses recommended the young parents that a Do Not Resuscitate order be stored in Charlottes chart. Mitchell wrote, "The nurses and doctors thought she should die peacefully"(480). For 16 months Charlotte was in and out of the hospital, ER and the pediatric nursing home. Her helpless body tried to flat line, each time doctors did all they could to stabilize her. Charlotte became weaker with each process. Charlotte's parents were optimistic now that there were no longer in a 3rd world country, where health insurance and health care doesn't exist to the poor. They were very candid about the situation so they denied the action for a DNR order. However, a DNR would have prevented unwanted pain and procedures for …show more content…
If doctors had an alternative medical treatment, she wouldn’t have suffered the in the manner that she did. If her parents could've accepted the extent of their daughter health, they could have had closer with her death been by her side the night she passed. We never want to see a loved one terminally ill or make a difficult decision on whether or not sign a DNR but we also don’t want them to suffer. There comes a time in our lives where we have to think of others no matter how much it will hurt