Is it fair on clinically dead patients to be kept alive using life support?
Nafisa (16, Scholastica): It might sound really insensitive but practically speaking, clinically dead people should be allowed to pass on because the amount of money and resources spent on life support can be utilized in better ways. Samarah (15, Scholastica): I never appreciated life support. Mostly because trying to keep dead people alive simply hurts them more. Not only is it too expensive but I am sure most people would not want to be ‘artificially alive’. Ahmed (16, Scholastica): No, being kept alive using life support is worse than being dead. If a person requests to be kept alive beforehand or in some sort of document, there is nothing to be done. I, for one, do not want to be kept alive by a machine when I am already ‘technically’ dead. Arka (15, Scholastica): Yes, but for a short time. Sometimes, if given time, clinically dead people DO come back to the world of the living, and they should be given a chance at life. M. Dayan: I do not support it because I consider this a tortu
