I am the last one who deserves that. I am not the one demanding that artificial intervention be forced upon a poor woman to keep her alive in a form of living death.
God did not create Man to live with tubes going into him. That is a man made decision. While it is the right of one to have it done to himself--we do have free will--do not equate it with the decisions of God. That is almost blasphemous.
What distinguishes the higher forms of life--not just Man--from the lower forms--are the cerebral functions. That is the way we were all Created. Your suggestion that life and death are absolutes, is taking verbal interpretation of reality to the theatre of the absurd. Behind those words, there are millions upon millions of one cell creatures, of different varieties, in each of us; some dying every day, others being formed. The humanity part, comes in our cognitive function--which is also seen by most philosophers as the venue of the soul.
You, not I, however, seek to impose your vision of the Metaphysical on others. You, not I, would have overthrown the judicial process in this case, becuase you did not like the result. You will not find any place, where I have tried to interject a personal notion into such a case, anywhere.
Untrue on the face of it. You have over and over again tried to impose your judgment of what constitutes 'quality of life', and then immediately used that judgment as a justification for willy-nilly revoking Terri Schiavo's inalienable right to live.
Can I ask a question. Where does it say "do not put tubes in people" and how do we answer God on those we have decided are not worthy to live based on the following?
Matt. 25:41-45
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'