I don't at all support what is happening to Terri Schiavo as we speak, because I believe that the removal of her feeding tube is probably in direct violation of her Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs (she was a strict Catholic, and her family and friends believe that she thought suicide to be a sin). This is a murder, plain and simple, because the will of the dying woman was never taken into account, and it makes me sick.
On the other hand, I know what I'd want if I was ever in the state that Terri is in, and I've made that will very well known to my family and friends (but I still have to get it in writing). I don't want to be placed on any form of "artificial" life should I wind up in such a state. No tubes, no plugs...just let me die in peace. I get lonely and sad fairly easily, and an imprisonment within my own body, minus my free will, isn't one that I want to live.
If I have no hope of ever being able to recover from a life of tube-fueled monotony and being an economic/emotional burden on my family though the troopers would never admit it), I will have nothing more to offer the world and will have no reason to live on. Furthermore, I think that maybe one doesn't have to actually stop breathing for God to tell them when it's over.
I wonder if they will let posts to Free Republic into the records.
Seems like he reneged on his pledge.