[MarMema]

I am missing church in the morning but I made sure a friend will submit Terri's name for our liturgy.

I am asking my fellow Orthodox to include Terri in your prayers especially in the next few days. It looks very much as if they will try for Tuesday to begin killing her. She will be far from the first of course, but it is way past time to stop this casual approach to killing of the disabled; based on a mythical right to die invented by the Supreme Court, and hearsay testimony from people who barely knew the disabled and thought they heard the person say something ten or twenty years ago that might apply.

[MarMema]

Can we get a prayer ping here for Terri and for life?

[Sun]

If each one of us tell our clergyman to pray for Terri during the weekly/daily services, one of us alone, could add hundreds or thousands of voices praying to God for Terri.

Also, MarMema, try this link; hopefull this will work for you.

http://www.cnsnews.com/pdf/2003/bushnell.pdf

[Kolokotronis]

I'll remember the Servant of God this morning at Liturgy.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Yes, one of the reasons that there is a statute of limitations for many crimes is that the memories of the people involved can get clouded over the years, thus they are not always very credible. It should be no difference here, but Greer has treated these statements by Michael and his family as facts. I wish a jury had been allowed to decide whether or not those were factual statements.

[kosta50]

Of course, MarMema, we should all pray for this soul and others like her. It is indeed unimaginable that out of "mercy" and "respect" for human life we kill people by the slowest and very torturous method, "naturally" (but nonetheless intentionally), yet refuse to end their lives quickly and painlessly because that would be "wrong."

I have seen this "mindset" when I lived in New York, on certain days of the week (I won't mention which), when it is forbidden for some religious groups to use anything "mechanical." So, if they want the light switched on or off, they let an ashtray press the switch or tell a child to turn the lights off -- that way gravity "did it," or the innocent child did it and thereby the law wasn't violated.

It seems to me, we have come a long way, perhaps too long, in our quest for human rights, giving in to rationalism instead of mercy, forgetting that only do we not have a right to our own life (because we can't keep it), but we certainly have no right to end anyone else's life deliberately no matter what the process of what "does it".

Deliberate act with the purpose of ending someone's life is -- murder no matter how legal(istic) minds sugarcoat it.

I have included our Catholic brethren with the same petition to pray with us.