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I’ll counter with my own anecdote… My BIL passed earlier this year after a life of alcohol and drug abuse led to organ failure. He made peace with his fate and was ready to go. But, the hospital placed him in a coma and on a ventilator. Then made it extremely difficult to have him moved to hospice and removed from the vent. It took days of phone calls, lawyers, and social workers to allow him to die. This caused much unnecessary stress for my wife, who was the only family member present. This was at a facility run by Floridas largest hospital group. I wonder if it was profit or their own religious affiliation that caused this? Either way, it wasn’t as simple to let a family member pass on as it should have been.

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Most times when this happens its because the patient doesn't have these goals clearly documented, in my experiences hospitals are willing to follow the wishes of the patient. If the patients wishes aren't clearly documented that's when it gets tricky.

Florida's largest hospital group has a religious affiliation? Ugh. We can be crititcal of goverment-run healthcare, but at least that headache is avoided. I live across the street from the one hospital in my small city. I think there would be protest marches if it ever proclaimed a paticular religion.

Not just any religion, it’s a Seventh Day Adventist Hospital (an offshoot of the Mennonites, who believed the end of the world was predicted in the Bible). This has all sorts of weird implications; from my memory, they can’t serve caffeine on the premises. There’s a giant painting of Jesus guiding a surgeon’s hands in the front of the Orlando branch when you walk inside.

I grew up overseas. All the hospitals were technically "islamic" but the great thing about that was zero religeous paintings. There were no crosses hanging over beds, but neither was any other image. Christians felt as welcomed as anyone else. The architecture and decoration was agnostic. Even the attached mosque was basically just a square room pointing in a strange direction, and was open to all peoples.

That’s just Islamic aniconism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

Islamic religious art na look agnostic … if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

Of course, without context Christian religious art is a lot of plus signs, moms with babies, winged babies, weird bonnets, and torture porn.

Isn't that a direct result of the Islamic belief that man made art is offensive to God? The same reason mosques are decorated with geometric patterns and not "art".

I think the prohibition is against depicting living things.

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