{"id":14193,"date":"2012-10-04T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:10:38","slug":"Woman-fights-for-right-to-die-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14193","title":{"rendered":"Woman fights for right to die!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of a terminally ill New York City woman are waging a court battle over whether to keep her on life support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A brain-stem tumor has paralyzed 28-year-old Grace Sung Eun Lee from the neck down<\/strong>, and she depends on a tube to eat and one to breathe.<\/p>\n

Doctors say the once-active young banker, who was training for the New York Marathon, has only weeks to live, but she doesn’t want to wait.<\/p>\n

“She wants to die, and she wants to die now,” said David Smith, her court-appointed attorney.<\/p>\n

The doctors at Long Island’s North Shore University Hospital say they would like to respect Lee’s wishes and remove her feeding and breathing tubes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Lee’s devout parents — religious Korean immigrants <\/strong>— say that would be suicide and would keep her from going to heaven.<\/p>\n

“I believe if you set the day and time of your death, you’re committing suicide and that is a sin,” said Lee’s father, the Rev. Manho Lee, through an interpreter.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a news conference in their attorney’s office Thursday, the minister and his wife, Jin-ah Lee, claimed their always-obedient daughter who headed a youth group at their church in Queens would never willingly end her God-given life and that she had been unduly influenced by doctors.<\/p>\n

“They went right for it and were insensitive to the family,” said Jeffrey Forchelli, the Lees’ attorney.<\/p>\n

Lee is in critical condition at North Shore in Manhasset.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She can only mouth words and shake her head yes or no.<\/p>\n

The hospital has stated it follows the wishes of the patient when it comes to life-ending decisions.<\/p>\n

A lower court judge had ruled Lee was competent to make her choice.<\/p>\n

If the Appellate Division Court in Brooklyn vacates the restraining order, Lee’s breathing tube would be removed and “Grace would die within minutes,” according to Smith.<\/p>\n

“There’s no winners in this. That’s what makes it so gut-wrenching,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Let her go! She would die naturally!!<\/strong>
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