20211030 : Acute head trauma

I recently heard about an acquaintance of mine, having a very bad accident, had an accute head trauma, was in coma for weeks and barely conscious now. The medical fraternity - probably doesn't know what will happen anyway.

Now, this is only in the case of accute head injuries. Anything else - people are conscious and can influence their life I guess. Also, the medical field is a bit more certain.

I feel, the person in question will go through their struggles and challenges anyway, but most likely they will be in a fantasy land leading fantastic lives.

The real trauma and impact of the incident is borne by the loved ones. As far as the doctors go, they will do the best they can and invariably will have to resort to saying "we have to hope for the best".

Where does that leave the loved ones? How to deal with the traumatic incident, how to deal with keeping the person going on - most likely in tubes of some sort, how to deal with the life and lifestyle changes it leads to, how to deal with all the financial impacts, etc.

Basically shackled for good.

In this case, there is a young child - who probably doesn't know what is happening anyway and the spouse has to deal with everything for years, a lifetime probably.

I know this sounds heartless, but in all fairness, if it was the end of story for the person with the accute injury causing incident, it is tragic undoubtedly, but at least everyone will grieve for sometime and move on. A chapter is cleanly closed and the next one begins for everyone.

Some countries allow for mercy or compassionate killing. Most of them don't. It's mainly from the perspective of the individual in question. 

What about compassion and mercy for the near/ dear ones. In most cases, if the individual knew what impacts their loved ones have to endure - on account of them, they would most likely not want to be party to the crime.

But of course, we will not know. So, as a society, we can continue to hide under that claimed ignorance...