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Come Hither to Discuss Something Morbid

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SmidgenofaPigeon · 04/06/2021 16:09

Please don’t bother with this is you’re offended by musings of the morbid kind. I know some people are. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

If I were to die randomly now, at 25 weeks pregnant, what would they do with my baby? Say I was in a car accident, and was declared brain dead in hospital, would they just keep me alive to grow the baby for longer, then deliver it and give it to my husband, or would that raise all sorts of ethical questions and just be very Gilead? Would he make the final call or would they go ahead and think well we will try to save the baby? Would the baby survive if I was brain dead? And obviously I’d have to stay technically ‘there’ but dead just to keep the baby alive. Which would be horrible. A soap opera must have done this as a storyline at some point. I think there was something like it in the Handmsid’s Tale?

There’s nothing wrong with me I promise. I do just enjoy thinking about morbid things. Like wondering if a chopped off head knows it’s been chopped off, and thinking of all the skeletons behind the walls of Bank tube station. I’ve got some beautiful taxidermy at home because I just like the fact that it’s a thing that was once alive and I can give it a nice home even though it’s dead Blush

I’m sure there are others that have morbid wonderings too.

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EastWestWhosBest · 05/06/2021 15:53

I just read this article about Jahi McMath. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die/amp

So interesting.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 05/06/2021 17:10

What a fascinating article. Well worth a read. Such a complex case with many layers to it.

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