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Injured Indiana hunter chooses to end life support
Does anybody feel that the choices and decisions made in this case were morally, ethically, and/or spiritually wrong?
Would anybody here refuse to allow this man to make his own choices here?
The Indiana man was enjoying that time while hunting for deer Saturday when he fell 16 feet from a tree and suffered a severe spinal injury that paralyzed him from the shoulders down. Doctors thought he might never breathe on his own again.Confronted with that prognosis, Bowers' family made an unusual request of doctors at Fort Wayne's Lutheran Hospital: Could Bowers be brought out of sedation and told of his condition so he could decide for himself whether he wanted to live or die?
The doctors said yes, and Bowers made his choice.
Does anybody feel that the choices and decisions made in this case were morally, ethically, and/or spiritually wrong?
Would anybody here refuse to allow this man to make his own choices here?