[supercat]

This road show should have stayed out of Florida. We have a large elderly population that is horrified that they could possibly become someones poster child for ANY cause and wind up having pictures of them in a pitiful condition plastered all over T.V. and the world wide web. And privacy rights are written into our Constitution. Medical science has the ability to keep the body alive long after there is any cognition in the mind at all. Here is a ethical question for you.

The old people should be more worried that someone might decide they don't want to live as they are, even when they themselves have made no such decision.

What if the only treatment available to completely cure Mrs Schiavo came from an implantation or injection of stem cells, but such treatment was withheld because of a ban on such treatment in this country.

There's nothing illegal or immoral about using the types of stem cells that are actually therapeutically useful.

[Gondring]

The old people should be more worried that someone might decide they don't want to live as they are, even when they themselves have made no such decision.

Agreed...or that someone might decide they want to live as they are (despite their wishes), or that their marriage isn't good enough for the spouse to make decisions, or any of the other things the "anti-Terri" clowns are bringing to the circus they've created.

It's about time the focus turned to a respect of rights, rather than "'life' at all costs"... >sigh<