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Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择
[ 2008-11-13 15:04 ]

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Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择

Surgeons often have to make life or death decisions

How would you cope if you had a terminal illness? What if your son or daughter had no hope of ever having a normal life due to a life-threatening condition?

In the UK, the question of assisted suicide or refusing medical treatment is extremely divisive and controversial; euthanasia is illegal in Britain, as is the act of helping a terminally-ill person to kill themselves.

However, a 13-year-old English girl has won the right to refuse medical treatment this week after a hospital dropped a legal bid to force her to have a heart transplant.

Hannah Jones, who has spent eight years in and out of hospital battling leukaemia and heart problems, told child protection officers she wanted to die with dignity rather than face the operation and have to take constant medication afterwards.

Despite initial efforts by her local health authority to remove Hannah from her family and force her to undergo the transplant, legal and medical experts said that a child of her age was able to make an informed decision to refuse treatment.

Hannah’s decision to stop treatment and spend the rest of her life at home with her family was made entirely by herself, according to her father, who spoke of his admiration for her.

"Hannah made that decision consciously on her own, a bit like a grown up, even though she was only 12 at the time, and she has maintained that decision," said Andrew Jones.

The headmaster of Hannah’s school described her as intelligent and capable of making her own decisions.

"Her presence is a source of inspiration to us all through the courage and dignity that she displays," he said.

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Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择terminal illness
晚期疾病

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择life-threatening condition
威胁生命的状况

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择assisted suicide
(被)协助自杀

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择refusing medical treatment
拒绝治疗

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择divisive
导致分裂的

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择controversial
有争议的

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择euthanasia
安乐死

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择legal bid
法律命令

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择heart transplant
心脏移植

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择leukaemia
白血病

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择child protection officers
保护儿童官员

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择dignity
尊严

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择operation
手术

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择health authority
医疗

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择undergo
接受

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择admiration
仰慕

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择grown up
成年人

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择maintained
保持

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择source of inspiration
精神鼓舞的源泉

Health: The Hardest Choice 健康:最难的抉择courage
勇气

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