We don't always get what we wish. You simply do not kill an innocent human being for your own convenience.
I tended to my father like a newborn baby for almost a year after he became totally bedridden and helpless with Alzheimer's Disease. His mind was gone but his body hung onto life with the help of a feeding tube the same as Terri's. Yes it inconvenienced me. I quit my job in another state and left my wife alone at home for 10 months with only an occasional short visit in order to care for my father until his care was turned over to the angels in heaven.
I don't say this to glorify the "sacrifices" I made, I owed my father far more than I could have repaid by a thousand years of care. I often prayed that God would mercifully take him home and end the suffering for him and for all those involved including myself. But that decision was not mine to make, and the decision to end Ms. Shiavo's life is not for any man, woman, or judge on earth to make.
The Nazis perfected "mercy killing" into an efficient system in the early years of Hitler's regime. Many of the misfits of society and the mentally disabled were taken away from families under false pretenses and simply disappeared. Now that efficiency in it's infant stage has been imported into our society. If a state judge can order the death of a woman who has not been convicted of a capital crime and poses no threat to society whatsoever, how long before they come for the retarded child, or the disfigured, or any other type of imperfect specimens of humanity? After all, by the reasoning of so many on this board those people are expensive to maintain alive and are inconvenient to someone somewhere, and apparently that is the greatest crime a person can commit in this hedonistic, self-absorbed culture of today. God help us, please.
epow wrote:
The decision to end Ms. Shiavo's life is not for any man, woman, or judge on earth to make.
The Nazis perfected "mercy killing" into an efficient system in the early years of Hitler's regime. Many of the misfits of society and the mentally disabled were taken away from families under false pretenses and simply disappeared.
Now that efficiency in it's infant stage has been imported into our society. If a state judge can order the death of a woman who has not been convicted of a capital crime and poses no threat to society whatsoever, how long before they come for the retarded child, or the disfigured, or any other type of imperfect specimens of humanity?
After all, by the reasoning of so many on this board those people are expensive to maintain alive and are inconvenient to someone somewhere, and apparently that is the greatest crime a person can commit in this hedonistic, self-absorbed culture of today.
God help us, please.