Just one question: Who wants Terri Schiavo to die?
The answer: Her husband.
That's it. Her parents want her to live - they've been keeping her alive for years - her husband has to do nothing. Congress wants her to live. The Senate wants her to live. The President wants her to live. Hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters want her to live. Yet because one person wants her to die, she just might? How insanely ridiculous is that? Her husband claims that she said she wouldn't want to live like this. It's not written down anywhere and no one can validate that claim. But because her husband wants her to die, she just might.
Last week, on the same Boston Legal that I referenced below dealing with FNC, they also had a case where an attorney with ALS wanted to be euthanized and then frozen so he could have the chance to come back to life in future decades - or even future millenia. The judge dismissed his case, ruling, that above all, the right to life was supreme in this country. Yet, because one person wants Terri Schiavo to die, she just might.
For what it's worth, I have no problem with assisted suicide. Hell, if I were in Terri Schiavo's situation, I might want to die as well. I certainly don't want to grow old with some debilitating disease that corrupts my brain and takes away my autonomy. In the case above regarding ALS, I too would want to die before my brain began to waste away and deprive me of my basic functions. And I shouldn't have to go to court to allow me to choose the right to die. But here we're talking about two different things - on one hand, my personal preference is that I wouldn't want to live like Terri Schiavo, with a feeding tube being my lifeline to the world, yet, I have no right to say that because I wouldn't want to live that way, she wouldn't want to either. And just because her husband says that's what she wants, it certainly doesn't mean that's how she truly feels. And just because I wouldn't want to live with ALS or a similar disease, that doesn't mean that someone else wouldn't want to live their life to the very last minute before finally being overtaken by the disease.
In essence, to each his own. In this case, leave the feeding tube in. There's one person who wants her dead, yet thousands of others who want her to stay alive.
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The answer: Her husband.
That's it. Her parents want her to live - they've been keeping her alive for years - her husband has to do nothing. Congress wants her to live. The Senate wants her to live. The President wants her to live. Hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters want her to live. Yet because one person wants her to die, she just might? How insanely ridiculous is that? Her husband claims that she said she wouldn't want to live like this. It's not written down anywhere and no one can validate that claim. But because her husband wants her to die, she just might.
Last week, on the same Boston Legal that I referenced below dealing with FNC, they also had a case where an attorney with ALS wanted to be euthanized and then frozen so he could have the chance to come back to life in future decades - or even future millenia. The judge dismissed his case, ruling, that above all, the right to life was supreme in this country. Yet, because one person wants Terri Schiavo to die, she just might.
For what it's worth, I have no problem with assisted suicide. Hell, if I were in Terri Schiavo's situation, I might want to die as well. I certainly don't want to grow old with some debilitating disease that corrupts my brain and takes away my autonomy. In the case above regarding ALS, I too would want to die before my brain began to waste away and deprive me of my basic functions. And I shouldn't have to go to court to allow me to choose the right to die. But here we're talking about two different things - on one hand, my personal preference is that I wouldn't want to live like Terri Schiavo, with a feeding tube being my lifeline to the world, yet, I have no right to say that because I wouldn't want to live that way, she wouldn't want to either. And just because her husband says that's what she wants, it certainly doesn't mean that's how she truly feels. And just because I wouldn't want to live with ALS or a similar disease, that doesn't mean that someone else wouldn't want to live their life to the very last minute before finally being overtaken by the disease.
In essence, to each his own. In this case, leave the feeding tube in. There's one person who wants her dead, yet thousands of others who want her to stay alive.
URL: My Way News
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