005 | text | daddy dearest...?

[mintjulep]

if someone was dying and they asked you to kill them, would you do it?

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[rudeandginger]

Yes. What's the point in drawing out the inevitable?

[mintjulep]

what if you thought you could save them if you had more time?

[likeabreath]

I've done it and I'd do it again.

[mintjulep]

why?

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[claimyourself]

No. My situation wasn't exactly that, but someone I loved knew he'd die if I made a certain decision, so I didn't, even though the alternative would kill others. I couldn't choose either one.

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[mintjulep]

what did you do?

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[dr_conscience]

Usually, there does come a point when the quality of life has diminished too drastically to justify the suffering.

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[mintjulep]

[ Oh. Hi Wilson. Bones is going to stick to text because he's not sure if he can face anyone right now, not with this shade of his dead father behind him.

But it's Wilson, and he's come to trust the other doctor -- not to mention like him. ]

and if you thought you could find a cure if you had more time?

[pinkeffinprofessional]

You're going to Kevorkian shit up?

[mintjulep]

no. just a question.

[ Because he's done it before, to his own father, and they found the cure shortly after. ]

[archivy]

I could not, but generally speaking many arguments for it can be made.

[ She literally couldn't, most likely, not without shaking the constraints of the Archive. ]

[mintjulep]

you're also 11. I know you're more than that, Ivy, but you're still 11.

[whirling]

i dont know
whats in it for me!

[mintjulep]

nothing. the person in question asks you because they are suffering. you pick yes or no.

[bedsidemanners]

no.

[mintjulep]

if they were in unmanageable amounts of pain?

[thenormalsquint]

i don't think I could.

[mintjulep]

if they begged?

[livingmyths]

Maybe. If they really wanted me to.

But I wouldn't want to.

[mintjulep]

but it's their choice?

[godofabs]

It would depend on the situation.

[mintjulep]

already dying. painfully. no way exists to help them at the time, as far as anyone knows.

[doeswhathewants]

How much are they paying me?

[mintjulep]

they aren't.

voice;

[hatedbyfanboys]

... Depends on the situation.

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[mintjulep]

it tends to, yeah.

[prosopopoeia]

Yes.

[And he would know that.]

[mintjulep]

[ Yes he would. ]

how's the arm?

[intheblanks]

dying happens by degrees. at a certain point,



yes.

[mintjulep]

you ever had someone ask?

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[as_damaged]

There really isn't an answer for this kind of question.

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[mintjulep]

too situational?

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[worldofourown]

Them and their family too.

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[mintjulep]

people who are already homicidal maniacs don't count

[candothat]

[What a coincidence that this would be asked on the very same day when fathers are appearing to everyone in the City. Very sneaky, McCoy.]

If I was a doctor and I knew all that I could know of the situation...

[mintjulep]

[ He is a ninja, surprise! ]

you would?

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[sealegs]

Well, of course. Letting them suffer just seems a bit too cruel, even in my books.

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[mintjulep]

even in your books?