21st Century Mummification - The religious extremists view on life.

[Stryguy]

Honestly, I find it quite curious. The religious right in all their wisdom insist that anyone with a heart still remotely beating, be it on it's own or through medical technology, MUST be kept alive at all costs.

If you want to call it alive even.

The egyptians, in their pursuit of religious enlightenment, would mummify remains so that they would have body in the afterlife.

The religous right, in their pursuit of religious truth, would keep an otherwise dead individual, mummified through the use of machinery and medical technology.

And this brings me to the point of this post... At what point will medical technology be able to keep a completely dead person from dying... indefinately. Even if said person lies there completely unconcious. Perhaps even brain dead.

Mummification for the 21st century.

[NC_Nurse]

1. It can now keep people around prety much indefinitely.

That's the problem. We wouldn't need laws about the right to die and living wills and powers of atty if that wasn't the case. Brain dead people can be ventilated unendingly. Most families eventually accept their death and take them off of the machine. Obviously people have a harder time with the feeding tube issue because they don't know enough about physiology and the death process.

I think Americans have not realized yet that everyone dies...it's a collective denial thing.

[whistle]

2. Just like the ancient Egyptians....mummification