# Deranged mother prolongs son's tortured life **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603 "2005-02-17T22:01:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/21 "2005-02-18T16:59:02Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > 1. The Mom’s not batty necessarily. I read her words as meant to be poetic, not entirely literal. Being a poetic sort myself, I would have given her the benefit of the doubt in this respect at first, until it came to light that she had been committed to a mental hospital. That seems like an extreme reaction for spouting poetical language. The people who committed her must have had a compelling reason to believe that she was completely irrational. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/22 "2005-02-18T19:03:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Hudson hasn’t seen her son in more than a month… IMO, This is actually worse than her delusional thinking, and maybe one of the reasons why she’s hanging on unreasonably without confronting the suffering her child maybe going through. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/23 "2005-02-18T21:19:39Z")
The sort of birth defect this child has, it’s rather amazing he was alive at birth. What has gone wrong here is a genetic defect that affect growth and development of just about everything in the body. There’s no fixing this. Is the kid suffering? Hard to say… respiratory distress isn’t fun, it’s pretty awful but it’s not the most agonizing state possible. His birth defect will have also messed up his brain development in serious way. Although a very few such children have survived for a time on ventilators, a few years at most, it’s questionable whether they ever had anything like a consciousness. The baby is going to die of his birth defect. It is quite possible brain death has already occurred. It’s possible his brain was never “alive” in the sense of having normal function. The woman has some seriously mistaken notions of what is going on. I don’t know how she arrived at them, but reality needs to take over at some point. A very sad situation no matter how you look at it. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/24 "2005-02-19T07:48:40Z")
What **zev** said. PS: WTH names their kid “Sun?” Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/25 "2005-02-19T15:24:43Z")
Sometimes people (and babies) die. Her fervent wish for him to live does not cancel out his profound deformities. If he was comatose because of an accident or similar then she should be allowed to hope for improvement. This poor baby never had a chance. She is keeping him alive for HER sake not HIS. If she truly loved him, she would allow him to die in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/26 "2005-02-19T17:26:22Z")
BTW, where in the article did it say she had been in a mental hospital? ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/27 "2005-02-19T18:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > **Originally Posted by HoustonChronicle** > _Hudson said she spent three days in a psychiatric hospital after the delivery because doctors at St. Luke’s were alarmed about statements she was making about her baby being the human embodiment of the sun._ (post #12) That is apparently what The Houston _Chronicle_ had to say about the situation. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/28 "2005-03-21T16:44:25Z")
Sun Hudson died last Tuesday, March 17, after being removed from his respirator. This article may not be the best, but it requires no registration unlike most others I saw at [news.google.com](http://news.google.com). > **[Missing Page Redirect](http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35924)** > > A chief provider and curator of Catholic information on the web since 1996. Our editorial voice, always faithful to the teachings of the Church, assists and inspires Catholic clergy and laity. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/29 "2005-03-21T16:46:32Z")
Sorry, make that Tuesday **March 15**. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603/30 "2005-03-21T23:58:57Z")
Never piss off a [C’tan Sun God](http://uk.games-workshop.com/necrons/miniature-gallery/12/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deranged-mother-prolongs-sons-tortured-life/290603.md?page=1)