[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:31:37 EST

Aside from the rational, logical, philosophical issues, there is a more  
atavistic aspect to all of this.  The news doesn't really describe what a  
death 
like this is like.  If you were her parents?  Even if you  believed she didn't 
experience sensation?  Could you deal with this with  any degree of aplomb?  
Or would you be clawing, screaming, begging everyone  to help.  
 
<<Doctors have said the 41-year-old woman would probably die within a  week 
or two of the tube being removed. By Friday, dehydration was taking its  toll. 
Terri Schiavo's tongue and eyes were bleeding and her skin was flaking  off, 
said Barbara Weller, the Schindlers' attorney.>>  
 
The pragmatics are not as nice and clean as all our hypothesizing about  
right and wrong, or even rights.
 
Julie Krueger

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