No this is an ordinary medical case except for the bitterness of the parents and the resultant political movement feeding off of it. Events like this are occuring everyday and in every state. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, across the world.
Death can be postponed for months and years through enormous cost unaffordable to societies and which would never be undertaken at all but for the taxpayer being bled white to pay. But such sentimental and fanatic attachment to a body is idolatrous to me and indicative of a irrational fear of death resulting from a civilization which devalues the spiritual and elevates the physical at every chance.
Forced feeding is not a long term medical option and is only appropriate when there are viable people recieving it. Temporary states of illness or injury is one thing a destroyed person who "lives" only because of constant intervention and with NO chance of recovery is quite another.
Those of us who have had to allow their loved ones to go realize the selfish nature of dragging their deaths out. This hideous spectacle was unfair to Terri.
She was not dying of anything, she was suffering from severe disabilities. Why don't you think of others and stop postponing your death right now; stop eating and drinking, before you become a burden on society and any "taxpayer is bled white to pay." It's only a matter of time you know.
But such sentimental and fanatic attachment to a body is idolatrous to me and indicative of a irrational fear of death resulting from a civilization which devalues the spiritual and elevates the physical at every chance.
That is exactly what you are doing. What you want to see is the elimination of all suffering, which Our Lord never promised to us while we were on earth, He promised a cross. What you deny is redemptive suffering, that suffering can have value. That is the traditional teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, look it up and learn something a little deeper than hokey humanistic quasi spirituality. Oh and Terri was Catholic by the way.
Forced feeding is not a long term medical option and is only appropriate when there are viable people recieving it.
Viable people? Viable means capable of living, which Terri was doing all along until they stopped her from having food or water. You try going without food or water and we'll see how viable you are.
Those of us who have had to allow their loved ones to go realize the selfish nature of dragging their deaths out.
Let them go? They didn't let her go, they caused her to die by dehydration. Those of us who have consciences realize the selfish nature of Michael Shiavo causing the death of his seriously disabled wife because he had already moved on with his life, having children by another woman and was tired of having to deal with taking care of Terri, who his lawyer would lovingly refer to as a "house plant" in court.
"Forced feeding is not a long term medical option and is only appropriate when there are viable people recieving it."
You claim to be conservative, yet who would you have decide who is viable or not?