Heaven Over Hospital

[Millhouse]

(06-15-2016, 03:04 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Parents let their 5 year old terminally ill child choose Heaven over going to the hospital for more painful tests and procedures. I couldn't imagine the gut wrenching decisions these parents were making.  Having lost a child of my own 12 years ago this August, these types of stories always tugs at the heart strings.   We lost our daughter to a sudden unfortunate accident at home.  These folks knew this day was coming for their daughter, but I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier on them.  That's just not the way the circle of life is supposed to work.  Parents are not supposed to bury their children. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/health/julianna-snow-heaven-over-hospital-death/index.html 

Just wondering what some of your thoughts were on the matter.  Does the child seem a little too young to be making these kinds of decisions?  I don't know?  No parent wants to see their child suffer. 

From the article: 
"The doctors explained to Moon, a neurologist, and Snow, an Air Force fighter pilot, that they should consider what they wanted to do the next time an infection made it difficult for their daughter to breathe.
Did they want to bring her back to the hospital? The doctors said there was a reasonable chance Julianna would die there after being subjected to painful procedures. Even if she lived, they said, it would probably be for a short time, and she'd probably be sedated, unable to think and talk. There was no right answer, the doctors told them."


The parents are extremely well educated, and their daughter had a incurable terminal illness. And since there was no chance of her surviving this, the parents did the right thing in letting her decide her final days, even if she was that young. 

If this was a case where there was a chance of beating the disease but instead they were just going to 'put it in God's' hands so to speak without treatment, then that is different imo.