Why are people taking this case so seriously? Well, I believe that I have read that there are some 35,000 people in this country in the same condition, or worse, than Schiavo. That's a lot of killing yet to do. Where does it end?
The culture of death has been marching down this road for over 30 years now. Despite all of the assurances that the limited abortion rights encompassed in Roe would be the end of that discussion, of course it wasn't, and now we as a society cannot manage to declare illegal the killing of full-term babies in utero, and have the judiciary uphold that law. Meanwhile, the "right to die" issue is morphing into the "obligation to die", soon to become the "right to kill". Where will this one end?
So, yes, this is a serious issue, and serious people are treating it that way.
"So, yes, this is a serious issue, and serious people are treating it that way."
And there are many "there but for the grace of God go I" people fighting the trend, too.
Some of us *could* have been her if things hadn't broken the -other- way.
(Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won't do it. )
So, by that logic any patient who is a quadraplegic and can't speak should be killed by being starved and dehydrated over a period of long weeks. Lovely.