A question of life and death.

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13th July 2003 Rebecca Simpson

A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH

In class we watched two videos, both were about the suffering and pain people went through during he times of either " Life or Death". In the first video a women called Christine Draley-Jones was speaking about her experience. Christine signed a Life Will; a will that says that if anything happened to her that would but her in life or death state she would rather be not treated on, then having any medical help or using drugs for the rest of her life. This is called "Persistent Vegetative State"

But when this came this, through a routine operation, she was notified with Spinal Bifida - brain damage. At the moment I feel that even though she has this disease, I don't know why she wouldn't want to give it her best shot in fighting it, rather then giving up straight away. By now Christine was going through a terrible time as she was dieing and wanted to end it straight away, and she thought it was going to happen as she had signed a Life Will, but this didn't happen. In her