The Right To Die
November 18, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Bereavement and Children
I had a tear in my eye reading about Hannah Jones. Over at the Guardian they tell the heart wrenching story A terminally ill teenager who won a legal battle against a hospital’s attempt to force her to have a life-saving heart transplant said today she had endured “too much trauma”. Hannah Jones, 13, from Marden, Herefordshire, who has been in and out of hospital since the age of four, said she did not want to go through any more operations. She was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia at the age of five. “I just decided that there were too many risks and even if I took it there might be a bad outcome afterwards. I have been in hospital too much,” Jones said in an interview with Sky News. She added: “I have had too much trauma. I didn’t want this [a heart transplant] and it’s not my choice to have it.” Widows and widowers understand the pain of death, however reading this story made me realise that for some people we need to understand the pain of life…..
