Court forces 17 year old to take Chemo treatments against her will

The issue is that the patient is still a minor. You say that if the girl is dumb enough to believe that chemo is "poison", she deserves to die, but would you feel the same way if the girl was younger?

That's where the debate comes in.

Should parents have the final say?
What about the minor? How can we judge if they have enough knowledge to make the right decision? Who's to decide what the right decision is?

I personally believe if a parent has the final say in something like this, and they decide to stop medication, then that's their decision. There are a LOT of people with a LOT of medical problems (including me), and in a lot of cases, if it were 100 years ago, we'd all be dead already.
I think it's silly to spend a lot of time on ethics problems like these. Everyone will die some day, the most we can do is prolong it. I think time should be spent focused on keeping the human race alive as a species, advancing society, and things that will benefit everyone as a whole.


Again. Tricky subject. Most people get emotionally invested in topics like this.