Go here to read the story. Where there is life, there is hope.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
What a story. The Ghost boy reinforces the belief that many of the souls who are on their deathbeds can still hear whats going on, imo. They may not be capable of responding but that doesn’t mean they can’t hear and possibly understand. I have supported this belief for years while loved ones are visiting their soon to be departed family member.
When family gathers around the bed and start sharing stories grandma can hear them.
Keep loving them and praying your Rosaries for them…reading Scripture and poems too.
Their still there. With us …. forever.
Amen
Regarding consciousness in a vegetative state, I highly recommend the following series of videos on the Irreducible Mind at Inspiring Philosophy:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TUjEbz4zD0i_rfGiyB4AGQa&si=SEwFVvST_sBIkb3S
The man who runs this YouTube channel – Michael Jones – is (I have been led to believe) now in RCIA. BTW, sometimes Mr. Jones may come off as a bit salty in his other videos when he deals with atheists and other idiots, but I am a submarine sailor, so I appreciate his brutal honesty. Yes, Mr. Jones is a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy, but John the Baptist was a camel hair, leather belt, locust, and honey kind of guy, so there’s that too. And no figure in the Bible was probably more salty than he. 😉
Looking forward to the video LQC.
It must have been Dateline or 48 Hours who had a segment on a woman hit by a car around about 1984 who woke up after 20-odd years in a coma. She was able to communicate with people and enjoy some things, but no amount of physical therapy could restore her mobility. She was in a wheelchair for the rest of her life and I’m not sure how much she could use her arms. Wheel-chair bound people often have ailments of various sort which shorten their life expectancy. A few years after she woke up, she died at age 50. I do wonder how recently and under what circumstances that photograph was taken.
I think this is God’s subtle testimony about euthanasia.
Or as we would call in proper English “killing sick people”
The woman I’m remembering was named Sarah Scantlin. She woke up after 20 years and lived another 11 years. Various therapies were helpful to her, but she was never able to leave the nursing home.
One of my dad’s friends had a bachelor uncle who slipped into a coma with no hope for recovery. All the nieces and nephews gathered at his bedside and discussed what they would do with their anticipated inheritance. Dad’s friend said nothing. Well, of course, the uncle emerged from his coma. He told the family that he had heard EVERYTHING and was revising his will to leave it all to my dad’s friend.