Actually, for some people, YES, it is.
Then those people have a convoluted notion of what natural means.
It is medical intervention to artificially sustain biological processes that imitate life.
There is nothing natural about it save for the medical appliances used to artificially invigorate and activate organic tissues. Which atrophy over time because of that artificial suspension of natural death.
And where do you draw the line? What if someone broke their leg but didn't want to deal with the pain?
Introducing extraneous hypothetical's is not helpful here.
If someone with a broken leg didn't want to live like that they could kill themselves by their own free choice. That's not your business nor mine. And it is not what this thread is about.
I haven't condemned anyone here. It's people like you who want to kill off someone because their quality of life doesn't match yours.
You are clearly ignorant of what a persistent vegetative state is. It is a fate worse than death. When you are all about someone being forced to remain in this world so that they don't die as is God's will, you're selfish and attempting to play God.
Since you can read minds, I guess you're a genius. Just make sure you stay away from mine...I'd much prefer to be alive then murdered by someone who believed they were being "merciful"
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
You have no idea what was going on in his mind.
You have no idea what a vegetative state is.
That's what I thought.
Again, like I said, you apparently can read minds.
Derision doesn't become a preachers wife.
Contrary to your obvious objection, I can apparently render a personal and educated opinion about vegetative states. No one has presumed to read this mans mind. Though you apparently imagine he's better off being made to suffer rather than finding peace.
I see a person when I see someone like the boy mentioned above. I don't see a person hooked up to machines.
Well then you're blind. He's a person in a vegetative state who is suffering immensely while hooked up to machines.
Obtaining an education about vegetative states, even reading about them by taking the few minutes out of your day that you otherwise choose to spend in writing replies you imagine successfully insult people word for word because you're more prone to argue for what you don't know anything about, would benefit this discussion greatly. And, most importantly, it would demonstrate a great deal of respect for the young man you are otherwise insulting due to your very obvious ignorance about his condition and suffering.
How do you know when someone is "actively participating"? Is it just a physical definition for you?
Read something about vegetative states. Education is a great blessing.
And you talk about my responses to someone who I disagree with? That's a mighty big judgment you're making without knowing ANYTHING other than what you SEE.
Fascinating that you condemn this young man to further suffering based on what you don't see.
As stated above you don't see the machines that sustain what is suffering in a vegetative state. A midway point between artificially sustained heart and respiration, and death. You consistently argue that physical presence is more important than quality of life. This young man is in hell.
Read something about Vegetative states. Otherwise your present lack of even basic knowledge of that condition makes all that you say emotional inflammatory verbal assaults that appear to find a means of covering your hubris that would rather argue for what you think is a life while refusing to gain that much needed education of your flagrant ignorance about VS.
The fact that you view the body as a tomb reveals a lot about you.
Educate yourself.
Arguing that a man, a man now after 30 years suffering this condition, should continue to suffer because it's better to have him artificially present says a lot about you.
There is no cognitive function.
No, what's selfish and sickening is the way life is viewed these days. Pretty soon people will be clamoring to die because they don't own the right kind of car or because that boy down the street doesn't like them...oh, wait, that second thing already happens. And why? Because life is defined in all the wrong aspects.
Clearly so is mercy!
That poor man isn't enjoying a quality of life. He's artificially sustained in a non-cognitive presence in hell.
Why do you think quality of life is immaterial to life?
All that matters is a body present in the world by any means necessary? What about letting God's will be done? And allowing suffering excruciatingly to be halted so that the sufferer in an irreversible state that will only grow more chronic to find peace.