I don't know if any of you heard this story, but it's something worth blogging about. My wife told me a little bit about it last night, so I looked up the story this morning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080301572.html
To summarize, a pregnant woman became braindead after the cancer she was afflicted with spread to her brain. They decided to keep the woman on life support for three months until the baby was strong enough to be born. Tuesday, the baby was born (C-section)--Wednesday, the mother died. The husband decided to finally take her off of life support and let her pass away as the mother of two children. Amazing.
Something I hadn't thought of, but my beautiful wife did, is the unheralded husband. We often hear of husbands kidnapping and killing their pregnant wives (Scott Peterson, the Hacking guy), and in the Media Age that we live in it seems like it happens more often than it probably does. But that's a blog for another time. The husband in this incredible story actually chose to keep his wife alive just long enough so that she could give birth to another child that he would have to take care of without her! Alone! May our prayers be with this family and may the two children grow up to know, like their parents, what is really important in this life. Thanks to them for their inspiring story, and thanks to my wife for her different perspective!
2 comments:
You make a really good point, Coop. Thanks for sharing this article. It's good to see people making good choices even when it might be a hard thing to decide.
Coop~
You're so cute. And its true, good husbands deserve more credit. Just because there's a few bad ones out there in the news doesn't mean that there aren't wonderful, supportive ones like you! I love you.
~The wife
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