Terri Schiavo

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As I understand her condition, there are two possible states for her to be in.

The best case is that her higher cortex was detroyed, and there is no-one home. Effectively, she is dead, her body just doesn't know it yet.

The worst case is that her higher cortex was not destroyed, and she has been in some way aware of being locked into a meat puppet for fifteen years. That is a Kult scenario being played out, only not as fluffy and pleasant. I have had nightmares like that.

Either way, letting her body die would only be a mercy.

But then, that is my understanding of the situation, and I'm not in the position to make bespoke laws forcing yet another delay of the inevitable.

Her parents and 'supporters' talk about the Mercy of God. If God was that merciful, would she be in that condition? Would she have been allowed to 'live' like that for fifteen years if God cared one whit?

Comments

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The Counterpunch article is interesting. Good points, and/but highly emotive language. The story of Sun Hudson saddens me, but doesn't surprise. The paragraphs on various exciting pieces of legislation make me want to break things (most notably the American health car system), but seem consistent with their approach to user-pays health care.

The argument that pro-life people can not be in favour of the death penalty is a regular. I agree it's inconsistent, but I suspect that people who think that way have their own individual rationalisations. One is that foetuses are innocent and have had no choice or actions on which to be measured by, whereas people on death row (assuming that they have actually found the right person guilty of the right actions, which is frequently doubtful) have made their choice and must now live or die with the consequences...

At one stage, erudito linked to an article that attempted to explain conservative points of view to liberals, and vice versa. It also highlighted some of the inconsistencies on all sides of the fences. It was a good read, and I'll see if I can find it again.

Pointing out the Garden Gnomes inconsistencies in general doesn't meet his religious views aren't coming into play here. The comments on legislation and that memo are pathetic though. I think we're both right. You're looking at from the political POV, and I'm thinking about the religious/moral one. Two bits of one sad whole...