question- Whatever became of Terri Schiavo's autopsy?

Bush, Delay & the other pseudo-conservatives should be ashamed to have weighed in on this, but leave it to the born-again politicians to suck up to the crowd.

President Bush is a "pseudo-conservative"? Pardon me while I laugh at that one. You I gather, are the real thing?

I am not motivated by "prehistoric scribblings" but instead by science and common sense. And it's obvious to everyone with common sense that Michael Schiavo is a creep, a self-serving creep, to the point that he even felt the need to stick it to Terri's parents on her gravestone. That was truly an abomination. There is something seriously wrong with someone who at that horrible moment, when deciding on an inscription at a loved one's final resting place, uses the moment to stick a shiv in someone's back. Such a person just cannot be entrusted with life and death decisions. Unfortunately, I have visited a memorial park quite a few times in the last couple of years, and I have yet to see a gravestone devoted to a defense of someone's decision to pull the plug.

As for elected officials engaging in this issue, as science takes us into the womb, and it becomes all too obvious when life begins, as well enabling us to take life in more "ingenious" ways, it's very appropriate for elected officials to ask questions about the beginning and end of life. This is a debate worth having.

Why this issue evoked in some such disdain for religion, is very odd indeed. I think some people have the notion that having deep faith is somehow a bad thing. And your comparison of the Christians and Jews who didn't side with the lout as being Taliban-like is a specious argument.

So, what is your handle at Clown Posse?? :)

Smokehill,

A bunch of folks on here will probably impugn your motives, conservatism, wisdom and whatever else comes to mind. I will not.

You described a situation where you had to make a terrible decision, and you made it on the best information possible. I don't believe that the Schiavo case was anything close to what you described, though. In Schiavo, the bottom line was merely the bottom line - and legal precedent, of course.

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