You can't really say that (with any merit). Forceing her to live isn't going to make her step up to the mark. What happens when you save the life of someone who is suicidal? They try again (usually until they get mental help or succede). I don't believe that she should have done that, but I am against forcing it upon her to live. She is not their only protection (and based on the decision that she made, she might not be the best protection either), they still have family, they still have their father.

She was not suicidal. She was irresponsible and selfish.

How long do you think the father is going to last now? Do you think he will live with that decision when he begins to think and realise what he has done to his family?

Choosing under what circumstances one wishes to be alive or not is not selfish. Everyone has a different level of where they wish for DNR, many it is if the become a vegatible, but some are much lower (such as her, with a blood transfusion). You can't call some selfish just because they put DNR at a different level than you.

I think he will last a long time. He is prepared for it. There are many single fathers that do just fine. As he holds in his religion, he believes that he did the right thing, and so he won't brake down and become an alcoholic or some other highly depressed state.

Yes, I am calling it selfish. It is different if you are ill, or depressed, she was neither and the belief she held is misguided at best.

It's not about single parenthood, although that is difficult enough in itself. How much more difficult with the knowledge that he killed the mother? That is effectively what he did by not allowing the doctors to treat his wife.

I hope you are right.

I cannot agree. The first amendment ensures freedom of religion. Whether the outcome makes sense to us or not; regardless whether we would have made the same choice, the woman had the right to practice her religion.

She should still have the right to practice it, but it has killed her.

How can that make sense?

It is your belief that it is misgided. You don't know, you haven't been there.

I feel like Wilson talking to House in, I think, episode 3 or 4 of this season.

But he didn't kill her. He will probably never think that he killed her, and the kids will probably never think that he killed her.

Although I am not religious, I have had an almost fatal illness and have been told by doctors...if you don't accept the treatment you will die and if you do you may die anyway. I have had serious choices to make and I have a great respect for health and holding onto it.

So seriously, you are saying you think that woman was right to kill herself for a pie-in-the-sky idea? What is unacceptable is how her rights superceed the rights of the children. It's just...she has the right to do what she likes, the children can run to hell for all I care

I don't watch cheesy US tv shows starring British excomedians, can't comment.

The medical staff begged him to authorise the transfusion when she was unable to do so. His refusal killed her.
The children will question it someday.

I agree. That is suicide and child abandonment. How anyone who claims to be religious go for that, I'll never know.

I don't think she was right, but I think that you don't have the right to tell her what to do in that situation.

House was bashing some guy's religion while the guy was on his death bed with only hours to live. He was talking solice in his beliefs and accepting his fate believing that he would go to a better place, and House began ripping on it to his face. House eventually killed himself (for like 90 seconds) to see for himself if there was something on the other side. He never said whether he saw something or not, but the way the episode ended made it seem like he saw something.

And he will probably tell them that their mother passed away from a hemorage (or whatever it was) and that she is with God right now watching over them, (or something to that nature). There is no single place where all blame can be placed. If she allowed the BT, she'd have lived (part her fault), if he allowed it, she'd have lived (part his fault), if she never got pregnant, she'd have lived. If, if, if... there are hundreds of factors that lead up to the situation, maybe if she was in better health she would be fine. Maybe anything...