To quote the SecDef on "24" to his leftist son, "Spare me your sixth grade Michael Moore logic!"
I'm glad your here God. Before you leave I have a few requests. Can I private e-mail you?
You're missing the point that there was no plug to pull, just her food and water to take away. How about if you give up your right to food and water in support of your pro-life views. What a pathetic statement, know the facts before you speak. You don't keep someone alive for eight years and then decide that it doesn't fit in your schedule anymore. Michael Schiavo should be put in prison if she dies. God be with you Terri and the Schindler family.
Whether I would want to is irrelevant. We don't know her wishes, and by the law her husband should no longer have standing as a guardian, even if he were the nicest guy on Earth.
I wouldn't, in fact I've told my wife on numerous occasions, that if I were ever in a vegetative state, to please pull the plug.
That's nice. I wish you'd left us your real name, so that when your wife denied you even a modicum of medical care, opposed tests that would determine beyond doubt whether you could recover, and planned to have you cremated immediately after death, we could all say, "Well, he told his wife that this is what he wanted," and let her murder you. Just following your wishes, Sparky.
BTW, how does your little missive to your wife mean that we should believe Terri Schiavo meant "Make me die slowly and painfully, even if it looks like I could live a normal life with proper treatment" when she told her husband she wouldn't want to be kept alive by a machine? If she really meant that, she was way, way insane and not competent to make the decision. Isn't it a pretty big legal leap to decide that somebody wished to die slowly and painfully? Can that possibly be a reasonable assumption?
And who's our evidence that she said it in the first place? Michael Schiavo, the guy who maintains this timeline as the truth (note, this is all from Michael's court testimony):
Late 80's: Terri says, "Pull the plug"
1990: Terri collapses.
1992: Michael promises to care for her for 50 years if necessary.
1993: Michael stops rehab, euthanizes her cats, melts down her wedding ring and tries to deny her anti-biotics for a urinary tract infection.
1997: Michael suddenly remembers that whole "pull the plug" thing, seven years after she was first brain damaged and on a feeding tube, and 5 years after he promised to care for her in that state for a half-century if necessary.
But hey, if we don't think that makes sense, it must be because we're religious zealots, right?
If you want to turn you're pro-life energy somewhere how about not supporting a pro-war foreign policy that results in the death of 1500 Americans and countless numbers of innocent civilians.
If you're so much for human dignity, why do you oppose the liberation of a country where people where raped as an interrogation technique, and executed by immersion in nitric acid? If you're so much for self-determination, why don't you respect the choice of those 1,500 troops, every one of whom volunteered? If you care about all those dead civilians (countless my tuchis, have you been watching Al-Jazeera?) why didn't you care about the 2 million people killed by Saddam's wars, terrorism and torturocracy?
In other words, you respect human dignity, adult choices and the right to live without being tortured or murdered--but only when it suits your politics. Go back under the sink and tell the other cockroaches that we didn't buy your propagandistic bilge.