Beating a dead horse
OK, maybe not the most sympathetic phrase to use...
I don't want to judge what's right and what's wrong here, but can someone explain something to me? So some people want Terri Schiavo to live. OK, nothing wrong with that. But if the reason behind that decision is based on a belief that no one has a right to artificially end a life, and believe that she should only die of natural causes, don't you see that if that was the case she'd have been dead years ago?? I'd have to say keeping someone alive by sticking tubes into them is a bit more ARTIFICIAL then letting her die.
Now I don't wish death upon her or anyone else, nor do I wish suffering upon her family, but really, what hope do they cling to? She's never going to be normal. They're going to continue visiting her at the hospital, clinging to memories of her, memories that they'll continue to have after she's passed on.
I really don't get it. And I don't buy the comparison that pro-lifers make. Letting a woman who is a vegetable take nature's path towards death is a totally different situation. As far as I'm concerned being stuck in a bed for 10 years is not a life. And letting her die is not murder. She'd have been dead long before if the hospital and the husband and the family hadn't kept her alive this long, ARTIFICIALLY.
If I was ever in that position, I'd beg anyone to pull the plug on me. What pleasure can one possibly take from life in that situation?
I don't want to judge what's right and what's wrong here, but can someone explain something to me? So some people want Terri Schiavo to live. OK, nothing wrong with that. But if the reason behind that decision is based on a belief that no one has a right to artificially end a life, and believe that she should only die of natural causes, don't you see that if that was the case she'd have been dead years ago?? I'd have to say keeping someone alive by sticking tubes into them is a bit more ARTIFICIAL then letting her die.
Now I don't wish death upon her or anyone else, nor do I wish suffering upon her family, but really, what hope do they cling to? She's never going to be normal. They're going to continue visiting her at the hospital, clinging to memories of her, memories that they'll continue to have after she's passed on.
I really don't get it. And I don't buy the comparison that pro-lifers make. Letting a woman who is a vegetable take nature's path towards death is a totally different situation. As far as I'm concerned being stuck in a bed for 10 years is not a life. And letting her die is not murder. She'd have been dead long before if the hospital and the husband and the family hadn't kept her alive this long, ARTIFICIALLY.
If I was ever in that position, I'd beg anyone to pull the plug on me. What pleasure can one possibly take from life in that situation?
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