First off, I want to come right out and state that were I to go into a coma, or otherwise be basically completely mentally incapable of continuing any vaguely normal sort of life (that is, something like Terri Schiavo) and there was no medically reasonable chance that I would ever get better, then I would want the plug pulled.
I say this both to be clear on my stance and because I'm basically too lazy to craft a living will.
Having said that, can I say that I find this whole Terri Schiavo case fairly disgusting?
And probably not for the reasons you may think.
Keep her alive, let her die... whatever. Not my life, not the life of anyone related to me (either familially or emotionally), not my call.
WHY IN GOD'S NAME is the government getting involved in this?
Oh wait, I think I, sadly, just answered my own question.
God.
In government decision-making.
Yeah.
Smaller government, except in how people live their lives, huh?
These state and now, sadly, FEDERAL government types should get the hell out of this matter.
It's a family's decision. LET THEM FUCKING MAKE IT!
If they have a dispute, let it be either settled by them or... hrmm... if only we had some sort of constitutionally-mandated place for disputes to be settled...
A Schiavo Google News Search (http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&hl=en&edition=&q=schiavo) is absolutely depressing to me.
Ah well, that's pretty much all I had to say.
Posted by Campbell at March 18, 2005 11:18 AM