Midterm: Ethical Dilemma

Ethical Dilemma: MORAL or IMMORAL?

Hospital Situation: Would you choose to save him from death or end his life?

For example, you have a relative who has very serious/ critical sick, and his only chance to live is the life support that was connected to him. The problem is the more he stayed on the hospital the higher the bill you need to pay, and in contrast, the longer the sick person would live.  But, it came to the point that you need to decide whether you’ll continue the life support that is his source of life or end his life and disconnect the life support.

It is very hard situation a person could experience to choose to save the life of your love ones, for his sake or to end his life for the future and others sake.  If I was in that situation and ask to save or not, I think it would be hard for me to choose. Maybe I would choose to save him, because I can see the fact that I would end his life with my bare decision. I couldn’t end the life of a person who would choose to live his life till the end. 

At first I would choose to continue the life support as long as I have the money to pay the hospital bills, as long as I have the source to support him in the hospital. And lastly, as long as I could see that he is fighting for him to live. But in some point of view, if I really don’t have the choice, and I don’t have the source of income to pay the bills, even though it is really a hard decision, we need to choose but to end the life of our love ones. If I really don’t have the power to change the reality, well then we need to accept the fact the he need to say good bye and leave his love ones.

For me this situation is very serious problem as well as experience of a human. If it came to the point that you’ll need to decide not only for the sake of yourself, but for everyone, maybe it would be harsh yet serious decision making. For me this situation wherein you end the life support of a dying person in some point is Moral, why Moral? Let’s just take the reality now; taking each session of life support is very expensive, that only rich people could afford. If the middle man would be on that situation, and they have pay for the life support for 1 session, but nothing happened. I think no one would think to continue it, because it would deplete your money, and maybe cause you to be nothing in the future.  Though we know that it would save the person, yet if we really don’t have enough money to put on, therefore we don’t have the choice but to end the life of that person whether we like it or not. If we know that we do our best and our part as a family member, maybe we don’t need to felt some guilt and conscience in our hearts. Just accept the fact that people die, people end his life. We are human created by God, we were given the life live for, to use, and to appreciate, so what we need is to live our life to the fullest as long as we live here on earth. Life will always be an end, maybe it would be hard for us to accept the reality, but we need to move on whatever happens. Just live our life to the fullest. So in this kind of situation, we don’t need to afraid of whatever decision we made, as long as we know that this happens for a good reason, nothing should be afraid of.  Just think that there is nothing wrong if you choose to save the life of that person or not, because you just choose what you think is right and more reasonable.

There were lots of dilemmas but this situation I choose because it is one of the best examples of dilemmas. I n addition of the real life situational dilemmas, is that when you need to decide whether to save the pregnant mom or the baby in the womb of the mother. Then, another is that when in work situation, you need to choose if you resigned to work because of the work stress, but in consequence you will lose your work, or stay on your work but you will always feel down and very stress. There are lots of dilemmas, showed but then, always think that it would be your final decision that would be considered. We need to be careful on whatever decisions we made in our life. It is very critical and seriously, takes all of this experience as a lesson. Do whatever we know is right to do, think of others point of view as well as your own opinion. Balance what we need to do, and be ourselves. In this case, it would not be hard for us to decide, and make decision.