Well, the religious right viciously attacked Kevorkian too. I agree that letting her starve to death is a little inhumane -- although she probably won't feel it. But the radical right feels that it's a more natural process then simply injecting her with something and letting her go quietly.
This woman is not brain dead or in a coma. I'm 100% sure that if you stuck a hot iron against her skin, she would feel and react to pain. If a dog was starved, it would feel and react to the pain and agony of getting starved. I can't do this kind of crap to my pets, or any animal or I'd go to jail. Why is it now alright to do this to a human being.
And dazzleman, I agree about extroidinary measures. Feeding tube is ok, but if they're on a respirator, it's time to give it up and let natural death take its course.
are using this vegetable
How respectful, you piece of trash.
Umm....her official condition is a "persistent vegetative state"!
The trash in this situation is the radical right who are using Shiavo to advance their political agenda. It was wrong when the left did it with Reeves, and it's wrong here.
I don't care what her condition is. Don't refer to her as 'this vegetable."
"Persistent vegetative state"
Don't use her to advance your political agenda, which is far worse.
So we aren't allowed to use real life examples to support what we believe in theory?
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