Martyr

Martyr
Jun 1, '07 2:32 AMby Mer Cedo for group circularrefuge
Religious people more or less believe in life after death though the notion varies. So they are not afraid of death, or rather they are eager to start another life after their death. Martyr is their ideal form of death. Because otherwise they can't expect another life they hope for. Some religious people are willing to accept this way to reach death. The desire to martyr shows itself in some refusal to current medicine.
In the end it's the patient's freedom to see a doctor who honors his direction or change a doctor who ignores his wish. Of course he can choose not to go to see a doctor in the first place or in the end. A doctor can merely suggest a better way to take but he can't force his patients to undergo his way.
Respectable believers won't sue any doctor even if he did what his patients feel detested. But once lawsuits were held, the doctors won't win. He needs to pay compensation for the psychological loss of the patients. But the amount of compensation might be significantly lower in comparison with the benefit the doctor brought. In short, lawsuits are counterproductive and less beneficial. What was important was not keep away from blood itself, but what he did to avoid them. His conscience won't question himself if he did best what he could before his conscience.
For example, as to blood transfusion, products. It's better for him to emphasise the sacredness of blood rather than the risks blood has. Medically speaking, blood products or transfusion has more risks than other treatment. However probably Moses prohibited it from the health risks blood has. First successful blood transfusion was reported after blood type was found in 18c and blood products are a result of modern medicine. Moses won't prohibit the use of blood in medical purpose for this health reason if now.
Usually people without faith are eager to live just longer, but people like he don't want to live against his faith, instead want to live well in accordance with God's will. Society, doctors ought to respect the patient's wish first. The most important thing is the doctor won't be under inquisition for the allegation of euthanasia even if it involved the cases of life and death. Because he did his best to save the life of patients within a range all he allowed to do.
Euthanasia often take places in hospice and it's not illegal these days when the patients themselves wished firmly. Even if the cases that involve the vegetable man, who has lost his consciousness and just live through the life maintenance apparatus. If the patient's family wished to take away the apparatus, some doctors do with this consent. This medical act is not publicly admitted yet, but it has been held these days under the tacit consent with society, law enforcement.
Refusal to transfusion ought to be understood in line with this current movement in society. The happiness of the individuals ought to be determined by each individuals, this is not a matter people other than himself have a say.


Comments:Chronological Reverse Threaded

mikemol wrote on Jun 1Interesting timing. And a nice piece. Thanks.


mercedo wrote on Jun 1Thanks. This article is the end of serial thinking to the refusal of blood transfusion, products. My idea before was completely opposite to the thinking of majority people. This is a free country in a free world. Each individual has a right to choose whatever way they think best. On the other hands, a doctor merely has privilege over the decision of each patients. A doctor can exercise his privilege as long as it doesn't infringe patient's rights. Needless to say, privilege has less priority to those rights.


morosoph wrote on Jun 1Interesting. Of course it doesn't resolve the issue of medical help for children, for the doctor, acting in loco perentis, has vowed to preserve life.The child's parents might object to treatment, but if we are considered equal, then we are left trying to guess what the child would choose as an equal adult. The child is not considered competent to judge, but to allow the parents the right to judge is to deny equality, for the child has no more rights than a slave.Under such circumstances, I believe that society should support the doctor as being in the best place to judge. The child might share his parents genes, but he or she does not share their mind. The most competent individual present to arbitrate is the doctor.

mercedo wrote on Jun 1Not only I but also many other people agree with you. Minors are neither responsible nor competent to making such a critical decision that directly relates to life and death. Minors whose parent follows some belief ought to be declared non compos mentis when it comes to severe surgery that needs to employ blood, and the related law ought to give the exclusive right to choose most acceptable way to a very doctor in charge.


ememalb wrote on Jun 1then you get into the argument of religious freedom and what a "normal" person might consider a routine medical procedure is not something they believe in. I disagree with their religious practices, but I am not one to think that religious freedoms should be taken away.


mercedo wrote on Jun 2When I looked it up the Greek word 'martur', from which the word martyr is derived, I realised why some people are eager to die for their cause. All humans die, all people who have some faith are humans, so they also die. But for them how to die matters a lot. Martyr is the best way for them to convince their lives in the next world. If they can acquire it by not choosing some medical treatment that is absolutely required for their lives to save, it's the easiest way for them to obtain eternal life in such a simply way. It's not very hard for them to do. They can get it by just one negative choice, which is much easier to get it as opposed to obtain it through time consuming religious practices, and still not so sure whether to have been able to get it.


mercedo wrote on Jun 2, edited on Jun 2When I looked it up the Greek word 'martur', from which the word martyr is derived, I realised why some people are eager to die for their cause. All humans die, all people who have some faith are humans, so they also die. But for them how to die matters a lot. Martyr is the best way for them to convince their lives in the next world. If they can acquire it by not choosing some medical treatment that is absolutely required for their lives to save, it's the easiest way for them to obtain eternal life in such a simply way. It's not very hard for them to do. They can get it by just one negative choice, which is much easier to get it as opposed to obtain it through time consuming religious practices, and still not so sure whether to have been able to get it.