I think there are plenty of people out there who claim they want to do what's in the best interest of their family member, but the TRUTH is that they do not want the burden of taking care of this person or seeing their loved one in a different state of life.
It's really a question of our VANITY. We are so vain that to have a family member in this state is bad and we justify terminating life because they wouldn't want to live "that way". There is no that way, it live or die.
I have a son who is autistic. He doesn't talk to me, he doesn't do all of the things that a normal little boy would do. If we are able to terminate life because we don't think they would want to live that way, what is to stop some bad parents from terminating their autistic son.
IT IS NOT THE RIGHT OF ANY LIVING BEING TO TAKE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. WITHHOLDING WATER AND FOOD FROM TERRI IS THE SAME AS WITHHOLDING FOOD AND WATER TO A BABY. Neither one of them can do it themselves. I am ashamed that anyone in this country thinks it's okay to let someone starve to death. They could at least have the cojones to kill her immediately with some drug rather than let her wither away.
It is not the right......
Exactly. If a terminal cancer patient wants food and water, is it denied to him or her? Of course not!
If Terri is to die, it must be because of her condition, not by being starved! That way, it becomes INTENTIONAL!
Deathocrats, indeed!!
"...WITHHOLDING WATER AND FOOD FROM TERRI IS THE SAME AS WITHHOLDING FOOD AND WATER TO A BABY..."
This has got to be the best point made throughout this entire ordeal... wish the media would state this!!!!!
Great post... Thanks.
This is the first time I've seen anyone say this. Exactly.
I know a boy who is 14 and has severe cerebral palsy. He will never sustain more than the development of a 6-month-old baby. He can't swallow saliva and does need round-the-clock suctioning.
But he feels joy and pain! He goes to a "school" every day. He smiles and even laughs. He is loved by his brother and sisters, and his parents.
I think of him when I think of Terri. How horrible to take away a feeding tube and basically murder someone by the slow torture of starvation! Just because her brain isn't working.
I too have a son with autism, though mine must not be as profoundly touched as your dear one. I have no doubt that if amnios detected autism, people with 5-month-old fetuses who test + for it would abort them!! How awful.
The right to "choose" is so UNcompassionate at either end of life. This culture had better wake up. We do not want to say that we differ from the eugenics of the Nazis "only in degrees."