The torture of bioethics - after watching the movie "Sister's Guardian"

Gudrun 2022-04-21 09:02:18

The film revolves around a girl with leukemia. In order to save the girl, Anna was born. Her body did not belong to her from the beginning. The important parts of her body, such as bone marrow and blood, were taken to save her dying sister. When Anna's sister suffered from complications of kidney failure, Anna sued her mother to the court to take back her body control. Her mother didn't understand this approach, so a love redemption began, when the truth Publicly, I finally understand the true meaning of the film title Sister's Guardian, which is full of love for my sister.

After watching this movie, my heart is very depressed and also shocked, what kind of sadness and pain are behind those happiness and happiness. I think in this film, no matter what choice everyone makes, there is no distinction between right and wrong, because it is not at all that black and white can be written on paper, it covers a lot of things, but in the end it points to Love.

For Anna, she was born with only one mission - to save her sister. The focus of everything in the family revolves around her sister. She can't find her own sense of existence. If her accusation is purely for her own rights, not for her sister The will, I think I also understand very well, "Life is above all else" is the highest principle of bioethics. Everyone has their own rights, and it's understandable that Anna's actions are to safeguard her rights. Just making such a choice will be tortured by morality, family affection, and ethics. When these conflicts are entangled, no one knows what to do. Anna is a child who perfectly fits her sister under modern technology. Should she be born? If Anna could choose, would she choose to be born like this and accept this kind of life? We don't know.

Artificial reproductive technology has always been a very controversial topic, so I won't discuss it in detail, but as doctors, we must abide by ethical principles. Transplantation medicine is a great science, and it brings good news to patients. You think, how exciting it is to suddenly see the hope of life when you are on the verge of death. Of course, this requires the cooperation of donor and acceptor. However, we ignored the feelings of the donor. Anna was taken from the body by the doctor again and again, so as to save her sister, the umbilical cord blood, lymphocytes, bone marrow... Finally, the kidney, and then there will be other She was originally a healthy child, and her repeated donations would eventually threaten her life, so how should her rights be protected?

Anna's sister has lost hope in the first aid, surgery, and chemotherapy. She lives very hard and painful. Although she is strong, she knows that she will die one day, but she has to force a smile in front of her busy relatives every day. , her psychological pressure is also great. So, how should her feelings be taken care of? Is it to live in pain or go away happily? This involves end-of-life care and the ethics of death.

When the camera went to the beach, I saw this poor girl looking at the sea from a distance, she smiled happily, and was moved by the picture of a family embracing. I thought, if the so-called salvation brings endless suffering to the patient, then what is the point of such salvation? Then this kind of life has lost the meaning of saving. The girl didn't want to suffer like this anymore, so she planned everything, she wanted to end the double torture of physical and psychological through legal means, when she saw the girl left safely in her mother's arms, she should be happy of. Faced with conflicts of morality, ethics, and emotion, and the standards of morality are different, each person's choice may be different.

The result of the film seems to be an ending that the audience is most likely to accept. In the end, everything returns to its own trajectory. This film is very touching. It runs through love throughout the film. For Anna, the result of the appeal is nothing. It doesn't matter, what matters is that she loves her sister. For her sister, the 11-year-old girl dared to challenge her mother. She could accept the accusations around her, and she was willing to keep this secret forever, even if her mother would never forgive her for the rest of her life. If her brother hadn't told the secret at the end, many viewers might think that Anna was selfish. In fact, from another perspective, if Anna's appeal was for herself, she was just protecting her own rights and interests, and she was only covering her own interests. The moral veil, we look at it differently.

In real life, we have to face the conflict between individual rights and social ethics. People are the sum of social relations. When people deal with various people in society, they need to abide by various norms and face different conflicts. What should we do? This is a difficult question to answer.

From my point of view, we need to grasp the scale of our own morality, according to our own conscience, and strive for our own rights and interests to the greatest extent in a limited space. That is to say, while pursuing one's own personal rights and interests, one cannot violate the standards of being a human being.

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Extended Reading
  • Rigoberto 2021-12-16 08:01:06

    The children played well! It's very touching~~~

  • Marques 2021-12-16 08:01:06

    A child should not be born to save someone else, whether that person is her relative or something else. Otherwise, the child will lose his rights from birth. It is just an item.

My Sister's Keeper quotes

  • [first lines]

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: When I was a kid, my mother told me that I was a little piece of blue sky that came into this world because she and Dad loved me so much. It was only later that I realized that it wasn't exactly true. Most babies are coincidences. I mean, up in space you've got all these souls flying around looking for bodies to live in. Then, down here on Earth, two people have sex or whatever, and bam, coincidence. Sure, you hear all these stories about how everyone plans these perfect families. But the truth is that most babies are products of drunken evenings and lack of birth control. They're accidents. Only people who have trouble making babies actually plan for them.

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I, on the other hand, am not a coincidence. I was engineered. Born for a particular reason. A scientist hooked up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to make a specific combination of genes. He did it to save my sister's life. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Kate had been healthy. I'd probably still be up in heaven or wherever, waiting to be attached to a body down here on Earth. But coincidence or not, I'm here.

  • Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body.

    Campbell Alexander: Would you repeat that, please?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body. My sister has leukemia. They're trying to force me to give her my body parts.

    Campbell Alexander: You're supposed to give her a kidney?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: She's been in renal failure for months now.

    Campbell Alexander: Well, no one can force you to donate if you don't want to, can they?

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: They think they can. I'm under 18, they're my legal guardians.

    Campbell Alexander: They can't do that.

    Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald: Well, I want you to tell them, because they've been doing it to me my whole life. I wouldn't even be alive if Kate wasn't sick. I'm a designer baby. I was made in a dish to be spare parts for Kate.