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WC: OK, here's a Golden Rule test for all the 'cautious', 'eloquent' ones around here. Anyone who believes that Terri hasn't suffered enough and deserves to be pumped some more has to be locked to a nursing home bed and be stomach pumped with slurry and wear diapers for the precise duration of any additional judicial appeals or procedures. What's that I hear? "Oh, well, that's not fair ... it's not relevant ... see I read the Bible as saying ... after all, she's the one who is disabled ... I'm just pronouncing 'God's will' for her not for me." Yes, I thought so. You guys make the Pharisees of our Lord's time look good in comparison.

WOSG: So we should 'off' any old people who use 'depends' and put em out of their misery?

Change the subject and avoid the issue, huh?

The question is, under our Lord's test of the Golden Rule, what would you want to have done to you if you were in Terri's condition (whatever you call it): more pumping of slurry and diapers or go home to Heaven? Which is it? No crossed fingers now.

You see you folks are just plain phonies. You always want to talk about how 'considerate' you are being of Terri; all the while wanting to treat her like a CPR practice dummy or one of those little dolls my granddaughters have that little girls can force water into and pretend to be giving them a bottle. Well, here' a news flash for you. Terri is not a practice dummy or a little doll, she is a woman who has been trapped in a situation you would never want for yourself for the last 15 years, the last 7 of which are due to people like you.

She's no different than you. Given the choice between where she is and Heaven, she'd take Heaven. (So would you if you were honest.) She told us so.

In your self-righteous sanctimony at her expense, you want to repeal the Golden Rule.