[nopardons]

And BTW, Scrooge says that after he asks if there are no work houses and the responders says that yes, there are,but that some people would rather die than be in one. It has absolutely NOTHING at all to do, even remotely, with Terri's situation!

[syriacus]

It has absolutely NOTHING at all to do, even remotely, with Terri's situation!

At least three people -- a male columnist, an aging woman and a teenage girl -- think there is a connection

In the 20th century, Americans tried to help people who "would rather die." We were so proud of ourselves for being less cruel than the folks in Dickens's novels. In the 21st Century we shove them out of our way -- like people did in the "cruel old days..