I haven't read the article but I'm assuming the people starved had cognitive abilities and weren't PVS. Let's compare apples and oranges some more, shall we.
"Some people are more equal than others"
Gee, how much better we are to torture the helpless, instead of the "able-bodied." Sorry, Peach, that's a really lousy argument.
I'm not going to flame you because I believe that there has been far too much of it going on around FR already. I just want to point out that doctors have acknowledged that they aren't entirely sure what is going on inside the head of a PVS patient. That is why they've given Terri morphine. They don't think that she feels pain, but they don't want to take any chances. Because of that, I don't think that it's unreasonable to conclude that there is a chance that she has awareness and that she might be suffering due to the dehydration/starvation process.
> ... I'm assuming the people starved had cognitive abilities and weren't PVS. Let's compare apples and oranges some more, shall we.
And the source for your belief that Terri lacked cognitive abilities and is/was PVS? From her testimony-challenged merciless "husband", who recently slipped up on the Larry King Live Program (3/18/05) and said "I don't know what Terri wanted. It's what we wanted.", with his attorney Felos sitting beside him? Or the testimony from right-to-die euthansia-oriented medical professionals like Dr. Cranford? He diagnosed Robert Wendland in California as PVS when Wendland was getting around on his own in a wheelchair and participating in activities with others; I think playing chess and free hand artdrawing.
Terri's parents had about 3 times as many affidavits as HINO and Felos. The affidavits favorable to Terri, affirming her alert, aware, cognitive (and evidence of strangulation) condition, came from many medical professionals, were often voluntarily provided because of compassion and concern about Terri's horrendous legal plight.
She was disabled, not dying before her intent-on-her-murder husband had the feeding tube tube removed and forced her remaining days to be without food or water. She's now started her 14th day. How do you think you'd be faring after 14 days without either food or water. You should think about that and hope to god neither you nor anyone else finds themself subject to a judge who decides their fate on the basis of flimsy hearsay from someone who stands to benefit in the several million dollar range (books, movie, TV rights) from your death.
How about comparing human beings with human beings?
Terri Schiavo has exactly the same "worth" as you do Peach.
Cognitive abilities have absolutely NOTHING to do with our
value as human beings.
In the eyes of God, that is.
And that's ALL that really matters.