From: Mike N. 



On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:58:38 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>First, I would say that people on "my" side of this issue
come to my side
>for their own reasons, and I don't think everyone's reasons are the same.

  I think the variations in what people perceive as their own beliefs make
the waters murkier than they already are.


>Some may be so staunchly pro-life anti-euthanasia that this is the issue for
>them.
For those taking it to the extreme that this is a pro-life ,
anti-euthanaaia issue, there are thousands of people in the future who
would need to be kept on life support until the machines are no longer can
sustain oxygen in the blood and tissue starts rotting.  The billions spent
on those terminal cases could be applied more meaningfully to others. There
are not enough resources to give everyone unlimited medical care with no
restrictions, so it's best to make good use of a finite resource.


>It follows then that it is
>morally wrong to kill this woman Terri Schiavo over the objections of her
>parents without: (a)  making sure she is in a persistent vegetative state by
>ordering current medical exams, pet scans, etc.  None of which have been
>done in this case either ever (in the case of a PET scan) or for the last 10
>years in the case of EVERYTHING ELSE;  (b) making sure that her wish to be
   What would you want to happen if a PET scan showed flat EEG and no
chance of recovery?


>I could write more, but the above is plenty to show why there is something
>terribly wrong with High Priests in black robes deciding to sacrifice Terri
>Schiavo on the altar of ideological liberalism that advocates an imperfect
>life is not a life worth living, so we don't need standards like the ones
>cited above; we can ignore the laws passed by the representatives of the
 I am not a lawyer but I didn't see anything that says to me that the
Judges were doing anything but applying the law.    Essentially, as the
Eric Cohen article points out, it would have been "OK" under the
law for the family and Michael Schiavo to collude in allowing Terri to die
and none of us would have ever heard of the case.   I don't see how the
judges are
the bad guys because there is a family disagreement.  I can see your point
that Michael Schiavo shouldn't qualify as the guardian, but the law still
counts him as married.    Beyond that, it would take new legislation to
issue automatic transfer of guardianship or dissolution of marriage for
equivalent circumstances.

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