When is all you can do too much....

[comicgirl]

Most severely wounded’ soldier endures
Shot in the head, he is blind and a quadriplegic

TAMPA, Fla. - He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.

Four years ago almost to this day, Joseph Briseno Jr. was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Baghdad marketplace. His spinal cord was shattered, and cardiac arrests stole his vision and damaged his brain.

He has had other trials: surgeries, procedures and medications for bladder problems, high blood pressure, the opening for his breathing tube, dead tissue on his tongue — even an ingrown toenail. The latest is the bone disease, osteoporosis.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19403909/



Damn









Not that any of us has the right to judge someone's quality of life.......but, I can't get Metallica's "One" at of my head

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/metallica.htm

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, Wake me

 

[huskerwebhead]

"One" was the first thing I thought of when I saw that story too. Weird.

 

[The Chairman]

Scary. I send my prayers.

 

[Ghostvirus]

What I Was Thinking As Well.

 

[tzarinna]

Sad.

 

[nosebleed.]

That guy needs a best friend who's good with a pillow.

 

[Tyrinus]

Hmmm, I think I'll make a point of informing all my friends and family that if I'm ever in a similar position to just let me die.

 

[Abaddon]

Sounds like a fate worse than death.

 

[comicgirl]

Hmmm, I think I'll make a point of informing all my friends and family that if I'm ever in a similar position to just let me die.

living wills...can I get an amen?

 

[tzarinna]

I need to put one together, I keep putting it off.

 

[CyberFaust]

"One" was the first thing I thought of when I saw that story too. Weird.

same here

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I've told my family that if I'm in that state to pull the plug. I definitely wouldn't want to live like that.

 

[tzarinna]

Better get that in writing, when the time comes they may not want to let go.

 

[Strange]

Maybe if someone gets bad like this and their family wants to keep them alive when they are not really living with any quality, they should just cryogenically freeze them until a cure for whatever they got is available.

 

[logansoldcigar]

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Interesting book. One was based on it

 

[blind_fury]

I don't see how it's considered humane to keep him alive.

He's obviously suffering and cannot enjoy life in any conceivable way.

 

[tzarinna]

Quality of life.

 

[Cyrusbales]

use him for experimental research, I'm sure he'd take comfort in knowing he could be doing something to help others still.

 

[Darthphere]

That kid is one super soldier serum away from becoming Captain America.

 

[Dangerous]

"One" was the first thing I thought of when I saw that story too. Weird.

Same here, I was about comment how it was like Metallica's one.
Poor bastard.

 

[ServantofAllah]

this types of incidents saddens me, inshallah he will go to heaven.

 

[Shuley]

He's basically a Zombie.

 

[Joker]

It reminded me immediatly of Johnny Got His Gun (movie, not book) and One...this is why I refuse to go to war...that, and the total lack of p**sy in the middle east...at least the 'Nam had prostitutes

 

[unstoppable]

That sucks

 

[cryptic name]

Most severely wounded’ soldier endures
Shot in the head, he is blind and a quadriplegic

TAMPA, Fla. - He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.

Four years ago almost to this day, Joseph Briseno Jr. was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Baghdad marketplace. His spinal cord was shattered, and cardiac arrests stole his vision and damaged his brain.

He has had other trials: surgeries, procedures and medications for bladder problems, high blood pressure, the opening for his breathing tube, dead tissue on his tongue — even an ingrown toenail. The latest is the bone disease, osteoporosis.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19403909/



Damn









Not that any of us has the right to judge someone's quality of life.......but, I can't get Metallica's "One" at of my head

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/metallica.htm

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, Wake me

don't know if anybody's seen the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" but this is almost exactly what happens in the movie. that metallica song is actually inspired by the movie and features images from it in the video.

it's just tragic. i can't imagine why they won't just let him die and have peace. nobody should have to be a prisoner in their own body.