I'm just curious, since the web page Matt offered originates in Oregon:
• When Oregonians voted in support of the right of a terminally ill patient to die (twice), the campaign rhetoric was one of "right to life" vs. "death with dignity". Failing in their campaign to force life on people, is the new tactic to strip any sense of dignity from a human being's passing?
The topic is absurd, and the link offered was certainly not intended for intelligent people. Nor does it appear to be written by intelligent people.
For instance, this example:
The plan is to murder Terri through starvation by denying her food.
It is illegal to kill animals this way in Florida because it is so cruel.
I can't tell which form of stupidity it is: intentional obfuscation for political purposes, or actual ignorance. I suspect it's a little of both.
Terri Schiavo will
not die of starvation.
Or perhaps this one:
6. Terri's parents want to care for her, but Michael will not allow it or grant a civil divorce.
7. Terri was a practicing Catholic before she became disabled and as such most likely opposes euthanasia.
Okay, okay. Let's pause and think about this for a moment.
On the one hand, divorce. Any Catholics care to cough up the criteria for divorce?
To the other, Catholicism.
To yet another, "euthanasia".
Mrs. Schiavo is a practicing (well, not at present) Catholic. Furthermore, the author of that insidious ramble speculates on what Mrs. Schiavo, because of her Catholicism, would think of euthanasia. Well, we might also pause to consider what she would think, because of her Catholicism, about the forfeiture of the sanctity of her marriage.
As a
Washington Post editorial explained,
The courts' findings were not ambiguous. Notwithstanding the blithe claims of politicians that they believe her to be conscious, a state appeals court in Florida wrote in 2001: "The evidence is overwhelming that Theresa is in a permanent or persistent vegetative state" and "at this point, much of her cerebral cortex is simply gone. . . ." In contrast to any number of ad hominem attacks on her husband, the court wrote that Michael Schiavo "has continued to care for her and to visit her all these years" and "has been a diligent watch guard of Theresa's care." And the appeals court agreed that the lower court had "clear and convincing evidence" supporting its determination that she would not have chosen to continue the life she now has.
Washington Post
And Mrs. Schiavo might well have understood in her more active days what the blithering Gold & Silver rant fails to grasp: Euthanasia is not the act of terminating artificial support of a nonviable human shell. She might also have understood that, as a Catholic, her faith didn't permit civil divorce on the grounds that her husband was doing his best to fulfill her wishes.
What wretched, vomitous filth we see the pro-lifers spilling over this human tragedy. Is there no decency left in these people? Denying someone's wishes, violating the sanctity and trust of marriage, awarding and receiving special rights, and even going so far as to lie.
Think of it this way: many of these indecent, pro-life people consider themselves Christians. And they ought to thank God their religion is a fiction: Whatsoever they do to the least of His brethren, so also they do unto Him.
Death With Dignity: David Horsey,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 23, 2005.
Over a million dollars awarded in a malpractice suit for Terri's rehabilitation has instead gone to Michael's attorneys' fees and other expenses. Michael has consistently blocked rehabilitation efforts. If Terri had died earlier, Michael would have inherited a large sum of money, but now only $50,000 remains as far as anyone can tell publicly.
If due process had been honored, Mrs. Schiavo would already be dead, and her passing would have come with far greater dignity than the pro-life jackals have allowed. Instead, we see indignity poured on the sick and defenseless. And Jesus was quite clear about where those folks end up.
Disgusting. Disgraceful. At some point, decent rhetoric fails:
Couldn't the lives of Stephen Hawking and Christopher Reeve have served as models for Eastwood in the making of this film? Both refused to simply lie down and die.
Two words. The second is "off".
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Anyone here ever read Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother?
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Notes:
Mustafhakofi I think Matt entered a long long time ago, he now runs a profitable hotel chain 
