[kenth]

I do not care what you call it. The masters of verbal engineering are all over the media these days calling murder, "mercy", hiding their intentions under noble sounding appeals to that "quality of life" mantra that is often a subterfuge. Intentionally withholding food and water until someone dies - is what it is-euthanasia.

Death to solve matters of inconvenience has pervaded our culture. It has such a grip that the natural reaction of most people on first hearing of Terri's case is to denounce her unworthy of life, because of a perceived lacking in quality of her life.

This culture of death is nothing more than a culture of evil. How many times do you see arguments against Terri's life wrapped up in a perverted cloak of empathy? It's the ages old "good is evil, evil is good" disguise.

[clockwise]

The Social Distortion tagline reference is especially appropriate.