Culture of death alive and kicking

WorldNetDaily ^ | 3/31/09 | Diana Lynne

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On this the fourth anniversary of the court-ordered, barbaric death of brain-injured Terri Schiavo, it is painfully clear the culture of death is alive and kicking:

A pair of ambulance drivers responding to an emergency call elect not to resuscitate a disabled 53-year-old, deciding he wasn't worth saving.

A hospital fails to feed a Down Syndrome patient, allowing him to starve to death over the course of 26 days. A subsequent inquiry exposes five other cases of the neglect of patients with learning disabilities.

A "how-to" manual on suicide by starvation prompts the "horrific" and "tortured" deaths of two elderly women.

Voters, judges and legislators around the globe continue to ignore the truth that all human life has intrinsic value and, instead, aid those seeking to bump off the inconvenient elderly and disabled.

Washington and Montana joined Oregon in legalizing physician-assisted suicide.

California now allows nurse-assisted suicide of the "terminally ill" by means of dehydration and starvation.

Idaho stands on the precipice of adopting "futile care" standards which authorize doctors to disregard a patient's advance written directive demanding life-sustaining treatment in the event of incapacitation.

Canada is considering allowing any individual to assist someone to commit suicide with or without a doctor present.

And last month the Italian court-ordered death by dehydration and starvation was carried out on 38-year-old Eluana Englaro, known as "Italy's Terri Schiavo."

Euthanasia is illegal in Italy, as it continues to be in Terri Schiavo's former state of residence, Florida. Following the example of Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, Englaro's father got the court to rule he could remove Eluana's hydration and nutrition, which it was persuaded to view as "medical treatment."

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I’ll keep her on my prayer list.

We are in God’s hands all the time..sometimes it takes a crisis for us to notice.