Queens Paralyzed bank manager terminally ill with brain cancer fights for her right to die

[brooklynite]

NY Daily News:

She is paralyzed from the neck down, tethered to breathing and feeding tubes — but Manhattan bank manager Grace Sung Eun Lee still managed to mouth four words Wednesday.

“I want to die.”

Doctors are trying to honor Lee’s wish, but her devout parents believe that removing the tubes is suicide — a sin that would condemn the 28-year-old to hell.

They’ve gone to court to keep the terminally ill brain-cancer patient on life support, turning a heartbreaking family tragedy into a right-to-die legal battle.

Wouldn't wanting to die be as sinful as actually committing suicide?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. What an ever-loving mess. The parents think they mean well, but really they need

to let her go and stop prolonging her suffering.

[cbayer]

2. She has been judged competent by both a judge and a psychiatrist.

They need to let her go.

I hope this doesn't turn into a Schiavo case, but the medical professionals involved are really between a rock and a hard place.

[trotsky]

4. What you are doing is telling her parents that their sincerely-held religious beliefs are wrong.

No different than what you have scolded atheists for - many times.

Care to explain the double standard? The judge and psychiatrist are merely using observation and reason - how do you know the parents aren't correct here, getting information from god?

[brooklynite]

5. No, you're saying their sincerely held religious beliefs ARE NOT THEIR DAUGHTER's religious beliefs

(assuming she has any).

Everyone is entitled to their beliefs. No one is entitled to impose their beliefs on someone else.

[trotsky]

6. If her parents have legal guardianship due to her condition,

then their beliefs are quite central to this issue. But even if they don't, to remove life support is telling them that their beliefs are wrong. As I noted, cbayer has scolded others for engaging in that exact behavior. But now she does it, and it's OK.

What if they're right? What if she will go to hell if they remove life support?

[WolverineDG]

3. I hate helicopter parents

I feel for them in this instance, but their "child" is 28 years old & suffering.