I am no fool. Check the state laws all over the country concerning end-of-life criteria and find out just who is making recommendations of changes and how they are put into law.
And I will rant about it because I do not intend to just sit here and allow SOME to continually change the laws so that they have the ability to determine when someone has to die.
This is America and we do not have the state kill its citizens no matter how profitable it is for the insurance companies, the welfare groups, the relatives. And, if you are willing for men all over the country to be making decisions about when someone must die - you are the fool because you are setting up another Nazi state and absolutely tearing down the America we all grew up with.
I am not buying into the cheap sales tactics of the death culture and I cannot imagine why any would. It means death to ALL of us - not just the ones that will give us their estates.
And it makes us murderers and ghouls. Who wants to be a ghoul or a murderer? Not me.
I will fight hard for your right to write your living will and insist that your body be kept alive as long as you wish after your brain is gone. Even if you don't write a living will, I think any court should (and would) accept your fevered statements here as clear evidence of your desires for yourself. So, I will do my best to see you are pumped and diapered indefinitely since that is your wish.
And, by the way, I will do so even if your parents, your children, your brothers and sister, your friends, your physicians -- or anyone else wants to see you allowed to die. I believe your wishes should trump any of those others.
However, you should, in fairness, concede the same to Terri and me. We want our wishes -- not our parents or others -- to be enforced. Just that simple.
What seems to bug you folks is that Terri wanted to be allowed to die, even though her parents and most of you wanted to continue to pump her and diaper her for another 15 years.