Right to die?

[PanasonicYouth]

One thing that really made me start thinking about it is that in the past I've seen people come in after accidents in similar conditions injury wise, and the decision be made to not do anything.

I also strongly disagree with people saying that the human body is not as fragile as you'd think. I've seen a teenage boy come in brain-dead after having a half-full can of beer thrown at the back of his head.
Although I'll admit that physiologically everyone is different, luck is the main factor in situations like that, not the durability of human biology

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Maybe bringing someone away from death's cold, inevitable embrace will change them in ways they themselves never anticipated. Every human life is capable of producing something magical but its is not for us to say who will be able to pull off something extraordinary in their lifetime and who won't. What if, by not saving someone who was so close to death that the odds of survival were close to nil, we lost our generation's Bach or Einstein? Death we can't prevent steals away too many opportunities for human achievement as it is.

I say try to save everyone you can.

 

[miketehmage]

I say save them. If they are depressed, start therapy, if not, let them go do whatever. If someone tries to commit suicide in a way that doesn't absolutely ensure their death, it is often a cry for help rather than an attempt on their life. So to let them die would be to ignore that cry for help.