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An Interview with the author of Walk Me to Midnight Walk Me to Midnight by Jane St. Clair is a new pro-life novel from Capstone Fiction. It is a chilling medical thriller guaranteed to keep you up reading all nightlong until you reach the horrifying conclusion. Available here and from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Q. How did you come to write Walk Me to Midnight? First, I was with my mother, sister and father during their long deaths by cancer. I was with them when they died. They were very vulnerable, but the hospice nurses knew what to do and how to help us. That's why I dedicated Walk Me to Midnight to hospice nurses. ~Snip~
An old saying in law is that bad cases make bad law. When a situation is too complex, there is no way to write a good law that covers every situation. There are too many variables. Assisted suicide is like that. Do you treat a 21-year-old the same as a 95-year-old? How do you determine competence in someone all drugged up? How do you determine Terri Schiavo's desires when she left no written instructions?
Also, the Netherlands experience teaches us that even if you have two doctors to supervise each patient's "suicide," there is plenty of room for corruption. Insurance companies and often the person's relatives have personal stakes in having that person die quickly. It saves them money, allows them to inherit quicker, or allows them relief from the burden of the person's care. Often these are unconscious motives. Studies have shown that when there are assisted suicide laws, dying people feel obligated to end their lives prematurely. When given a choice, most people want to live as long as possible.
Q.Why do you think so many Americans believe in assisted suicide?
First, they are thinking only in terms of themselves and not in terms of society. They look at someone like Terri Schiavo and say, "I don't want to end up like her. I want control." You have to look beyond your fear and your desire to control your death to the implications of such laws for society.
Secondly, they want the sanction of society and doctors to do something that is traditionally a moral wrong. They want approval for committing suicide. If you don't think it's wrong and you want it for yourself, why do you have to involve society in your decision? Why indeed?
An Interview with the Author of Walk Me to Midnight
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............Embryonic stem cell research is a most promising way to find cures for many diseases. It has nothing to do with the issue of abortion or preservation of human life. Other methods like using adult stem cells or deriving synthetic embryos from skin cells are less promising and still require comparative results that can be found only through research with real embryonic stem cells.
The Terri Schiavo case is another example of ideology trumping reality. It is understandable that her parents would be in denial about her condition, but it is absolutely unconscionable that politicians would seize upon the human tragedy for political gain. "Persistent vegetative state" cannot be denied for political reasons.
Science is reality, ideology is a construct. Let's not confuse the two.........
Political leaders must acknowledge science
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