Taking Time to Reflect

OK, so, I still watch Grey's Anatomy. After countless break-room romances, plane crashes, ferry accidents, marriages and divorces, I'm still hooked. Between all of the melodrama, I find there is still a message that will get me thinking. This last week, in the face of paralysis caused by a recent accident, a man had to choose between living paralyzed or taking himself off of the ventilator, which would subsequently end his life. In the conversation asking him what his decision was, there were three significant questions posed to him: "Do you know who you are? Do you know what's happened to you? Do you want to live this way?"