nor did it matter whether or not she could ever be "rehabilitated".....
I just don't think we can out of the blue decide we want someone dead, and then go ahead and get the courts to okay it, and to make that someone dead in the most torturous way......
I totally agree with you.
pattyjo
Amen.
Yes. Exactly. The point is not whether she was PVS, and, if so, that makes it ok to kill her.
From the article:
The medical literature is rife with arrogant pronouncements in editorials of learned journals, such as life itself not being of “benefit” to someone in the PVS state.
I know that there have been many outbursts of anger here on FR when someone uses the term "Nazi" in relation to this subject. But my goodness, does this or does this not sound like "Life unworthy of life" term that the Germans used when they started their whole "merciful death" for those that had no "quality of life". We in Western Culture seem to be of the same belief now. If you don't have a 'quality of life' that we deem to be appropriate, it is 'merciful' to just 'let you go' - it is extremely chilling.
It didn't matter to me either. Terri was a living human being and that was all that mattered to me. I wouldn't starve and dehydrate an animal much less a human being.