This is Stan to Reasons, hashtag SDRSk podcast. Thank you so much for joining us.

We love hearing from you. And I just want to say right at the start, just send in your questions.

If you've been thinking about it, go ahead and send those in on X with the hashtag SDR ask or go to our website.

I really like to find questions that go together so we can get more of your question answered.

It just helps us to answer more for each one.

Plus are different aspects or facets to similar questions.

Yeah, so we'd love to hear from you. All right, Greg.

We're going to start with a question from Mr. Speedy.

Is it a sin to remove someone from life support?

The sister-in-law of my brother had a brain aneurysm and has been declared clinically dead and has lost brain function.

And they are planning to take her off life support soon, thanks.

Yeah.

In that circumstance, no, it's not wrong.

And the reason why is they've already died, essentially, and what the machines are doing is just keeping tissue alive, you know.

So the basic rule is if you're not obliged to put a person on support under a certain set of circumstances,

then it's not immoral to remove the support, okay?

And as a general role, the support or the medical aid has to provide a reasonable expectation of benefit, okay? And the benefit here is not, is medical benefit,

not quality of life benefit? That's a different issue and should not enter into these kinds of

questions the way it often has. Is there a reasonable expectation of medical benefit?

In this case, there's none.

The person is already, when they say clinically dead, that means they're gone, you know.

And if you wait, the body is going, you have to fight the body beginning to deteriorate,

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