I did not realize that the issue was so close to you. It is close to me for not wholly dissimilar reasons. My view, however, is simply this: that the weaker and the more helpless the life depending on us is, the harder we should work to protect it. It is true of babies and by God it should be true of the old and the sick.
You seem to have been sold the usual pup about Terri Schiavo. There was no need of any complex medical or technological procedures to keep her alive: all that was required was those two ancient medicines known as "food" and "drink". That was what was denied to her. That was how she died - of the same horrible death which the media who murdered her for political advantage now blare at us from Niger several times a day in order to get our money. From hunger and thirst. That was how she was murdered, so that a political party might score a point.
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Re: Terry Schiavo
Date: 2005-08-05 05:49 pm (UTC)You seem to have been sold the usual pup about Terri Schiavo. There was no need of any complex medical or technological procedures to keep her alive: all that was required was those two ancient medicines known as "food" and "drink". That was what was denied to her. That was how she died - of the same horrible death which the media who murdered her for political advantage now blare at us from Niger several times a day in order to get our money. From hunger and thirst. That was how she was murdered, so that a political party might score a point.