Should we kill coma patients on life support to provide more resources to others?

Not really, your killing prisoners to make room for more prisoners... wait 🤔 This might be deeper then I first thought lol..

@Curiousguy833: thanks for best answer

@nedkelly: you earn that shit lol! It got be thinking, at the end of the day am just a curious guy ;p

@Curiousguy833: I also understand what you're saying and it isn't always an easy answer, but once you start saying that one individual loses their right to life, for the "collective good," it is a VERY slippery slope. Who decides whose life or lives are more/less valuable? See, if the person in a coma is Trump, these days, and the other ten supposedly receiving more care if we pull his plug are....idk, we'll say Bernie Sanders followers, and the doc likes Bernie, Trump is screwed and the masses cheer because he's gone, right? But, what if the situation is reversed? Say the person in a coma is Bernie and the ones who stand to benefit from his death are Trump followers. The "good doctor" decides Bernie's life is worth fighting for and decides to kill off the ten Trump supporters...all for the sake of the common good right? Again, the mass of people would be happy. But neither choice was ok. ALL of those people deserved the best the doctor could give to save their life and he took an oath promising to do exactly that.

@Lakesidepoet: I love your answer and would mostly agree, however the question states that it's a "coma" patients which means that we have done everything we can to try and bring them back but nothing is working and we are now in the "hope " territory and are hoping that they get better... but in the mean time there are people coming who are 50/50 and you might be able to save then and answer their families prayers. It does not matter if it's trump or Bernie to the doctor.

It's a question of, do you go with the long shot and try to save both when the chances that you will fail is high.. or focus your energy and save the one that you can

@Curiousguy833: Except BOTH are a hope, you just think one's odds are higher than the other's. Do you know how often doctors get it wrong? Or how often something that SHOULD HAVE BEEN an easy and routine procedure to fix someone goes terribly awry and they die?

@Curiousguy833: well be grateful you didn't have to be in a coma dude,

Most of the people in coma have people who love them on the outside making sure nobody kills them. If it is determined they are indisputably brain dead, then yes, harvest their organs and let them die, otherwise you have to preserve them.

Listen man, I don't know the question the answer to this question. I just wanted to see make people think for a sec.

If it was me in a coma (that's I could still think but couldn't moved) that would raise a few different questions. E.g would I be ok with seeing/hearing my family worry and raising their bill. Would I be ok with staying conscious for a number of years without moving or communicating... damn that sounds like hell on earth

Do you remember anything from when you were in a coma?

@UreBesFrend: no not really I was tied to a hospital bed because they say you come out violently, and my legs were in traction I thought I was kidnapped by Iranians

@Greenbare: you get a whole different perspective when the shoe was on the other foot

@Sissycindysue: I agree with Greenbare it's only a question of time sadly. "A piece of warm meat" might have to harsh but we have another word for that shit.. a corpse 😔

@Curiousguy833: oh.. I'm a corpse now? you're a fucking idiot

If someone was in a coma, they are always someone's family member. But if the doctors tell you there is basically no chance and the bills keep going up. You start to think. Listen this is a tough question... honestly I don't know what I would do but that's why am asking the question

well I was in a coma for nine months, no one gave up on me and I got to see my daughter gradute from high school as well as college

That's great! And am happy to hear that :)

Keep in mind am just asking a tough question and want to see what everyone thinks. I don't know the answer to this questions, am conflicted as well. I just want to make sure everyone really thinks about the question

coma, you can't be serious?