[@POOHEAD189] Well I certainly might have come across as diminishing the benefits or reality of faith, and I'm certainly not. [@Penny] Respectfully disagree. :P And I'd say, thankfully...because people already think doctors play god...I can't imagine how more accurate that would get, if they could legally take someone's life... While true, some survive even bullets to the head...it's low, but that chance makes the idea of trying so, especially when you're younger. It's an incredibly selfish decision. (Self inflicted gun head wounds.) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175460/ For patients who survive SIGSWs to the head, the injuries sustained are often devastating and require multiple complex procedures performed by a diverse team of specialists. Data measuring the average costs and reimbursements of these cases suggest that UIHC approximately “breaks even” or makes a small profit in the treatment of these patients. This implies that while these cases place a large burden on society—one source estimates an annual cost of $11 billion in lost productivity alone in the United States. (U.S Study. To gunshot to head.) https://communications.yale.edu/sites/default/files/10.27.2016_survival_rate_of_head_gunshot_wound_victims_higher_than_expected_wtnh_connecticut_news.pdf A new study, a first of its kind, shows that civilians who are shot in the head or have other penetrating brain injuries, have a 42 percent chance of surviving. The senior author of the study, Kevin Sheth, is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Yale. The study, published in Journal Neurology, includes 400 patients at two major trauma centers.