Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Something I'm glad didn't happen to me #2

Originally this post was going to be about this book that I finished reading yesterday and I'll probably do a post on that at a later time. The reason that I decided to postpone it was to write about a story that caught my eye...I went through a lot of things while I was in the hospital but nothing like this...http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ny-woman-declared-brain-dead-woke-up-moments-before-organs-harvested?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=11afd8d0d8-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_06_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0caba610ac-11afd8d0d8-326216578

It seems that this woman was taken to the hospital after a drug overdose. While there,  doctors assumed that she had suffered irreversible brain damage and was considered "dead" by the doctors...however it seems that she was not, for when she was about to have her organs harvested (to be donated to other people) she ended up waking out of what was described as a drug-induced coma.

Now can you imagine...waking out of a coma and finding out that they were going to cut you open and taking your organs out? And the according to this story, this has happened before and there were all sorts of tests and signs that were ignored or not done that would have prevented this from happening...

But the real tragedy of the story was not this, and the part that makes me wonder...was that 16 months later, she ended up "succeeding" in taking her life and this time she really ended up dead. The story mentions that the family didn't sue and that the young lady didn't care about that fact that doctors took her life. I know as a family they had to care about her, but why didn't they ask about why she overdosed in the first place or ask about her depression or lack of concern about this incident and find a way to discuss it with her? I don't know if the family knew the Lord or not, but maybe someone could have shared the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus with her??? Something to keep her from ending her life the way she did?? Something to keep the first tragedy from ever happening?

Just something to think about....

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