Terry Schiavo is dead�and so is decency
April 02, 2005 ~ 10:37 p.m.
The whole affair surrounding Terri Schiavo concerned a Gestapo-like mindset: let�s get rid of these vegetables so we can move on. They�re not contributing to society, after all.
And this is someone who believes in the right to euthanasia talking! Surprised? You shouldn�t be. For the level-headed among us, you have to admit that the Schiavo case brought in too many players�two factions of her family, the doctors, the governor, the president, the Supreme Court�and was very messy. This should never have been the test case for euthanasia. It�s appalling that it was allowed to be.
Secondly, Schiavo died a horrible death. She starved to death for 13 days, for God�s sake! We beat ourselves up for not being able to help starving Africans, but we let an American citizen starve to death.
If euthanasia is to be legal, we need to have doctor-patient confidentiality, something on the basis of a DNR order. There must be no doubt whatsoever that we will never recover if we do have an accident or disease that leads to terminal illness. And death must be through lethal injection, some means that will allow the patient to die in their sleep. Certainly not anything that will cause them to waste away over the course of nearly a week-and-a-half.
The whole Schiavo case was an insane circus. But not that the Right was much better than the Left. President Bush�s heart was in the right place, but he overreached in what was essentially a state issue (This government is poking around in areas where it shouldn�t be; Big Government Conservatism is an oxymoron).
However, the squeakiest wheels always get the grease. I am, of course, talking about the left-wing, for whom death seems to be a fetish. The Right was dragged into this battle.
Again, I think humans should decide their own fates, even concerning their deaths. But this was not the way to establish that right.
The pro death-for-Schiavo crowd should be ashamed of itself. This was a dishonorable media frenzy, feeding off her case like vultures, disseminating disinformation to a hungry flock of pop-cultured morons (vis-a-vis the War in Iraq). This is what America is becoming. The Schiavo case may just have been the tip of the iceberg.
� M.E.M.
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