I was mostly ignoring this case.
I can see both sides. Medical science now has the capability to torture people even unto death. Yet Dylan Thomas said it best: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
Unfortunately, the time has come for someone in the middle to comment on this tragedy.
Life is complex, and there are times when there are no good answers. This is one of those cases.
Ignore what you might have read. The media has spun this issue so hard that any story about it in the media at this point is bunk. The reality is that Terri Schiavo has been mentally dead for 14 years, and her husband and parents disagree about what to do about it. Everything else pro and con is just a distortion of the facts: believe nothing bad about her husband, and nothing good about her “condition”.
A number of well-meaning people on both sides of this issue have created an abomination. Neither of the two options: keeping a dead woman’s body alive indefinitely or starving her to death are acceptable answers to this conundrum. The logical, merciful thing would be to give her a drug overdose.
The fact that we have gone beyond logic and mercy in this case is what frustrates me so much with the media, and the politicians that think that screaming at each other is debate.
I wish Terri Schiavo a good death. It’s too bad she won’t get one.
Here’s a FAQ about the case if you’re interested: Hat Tip: Right Wing News
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