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I get a kick out of people like you who, like the Pharisees of old, like to parade their asserted 'compassion' about poor Terri, but facing the question of whether they themselves would want to live as they wished to impose on poor Terri or simply die, they dodge and weave and refuse to answer. Why? It's such a simple question.

That is very condescending of you.

My answer? The timing and manner of my demise is not something that is properly of my choosing. My wishes in those matters are irrelevant. Not that I don't have them, mind you. Death in the sleep is first pick. Violent, quick and certain death (e.g., plane crash) would be second. If I was as Terri, God's will be done, and neither me nor my caretakers believe that God's will is to off me via starvation. Bring on the slurry and diapers!!

Of course, the law and the medical profession may see it as you do. No matter what MY wishes and beliefs are, you, in your superior wisdom, deem that nobody but nobody would want to live like that. I can live and die with that, the human condition is what it is.

If I was as Terri, God's will be done, and neither me nor my caretakers believe that God's will is to off me via starvation. Bring on the slurry and diapers!!

Well, fatalism has its rewards, but let us both hope you never get to taste them.

My God made me in His image, capable of thought and action. God gave Adam instruction to subdue the created world and Paul explained that this means that we are not to give in to fatalism: 'What will be, will be." No, according to Paul, the spiritual body is always to take control over the physical body: "I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave ..."

A master has life and death control over his slave. And why should we not. The body is perishable, the spirit is not. We must always give primacy to the imperishable, not preserving the perishable.

My point here is that a Christian is not a fatalist. There is no reason for a Christian to submit to evil which befalls him as though it came from God. It does not.

You are, of course, free to submit to the evil of the type which afflicted Terri as though it came from God and call it, daringly, "God's will." I will not. The evil which afflicted Terri came from Satan and God set her free. Those who helped deserve our commendation, not the endorsement of passive pagan fatalism which so dominates here.

Death in the sleep is first pick. Violent, quick and certain death (e.g., plane crash) would be second.

All that is fine, and happens to corrsepond with my wishes...

But the Christian's REAL "death wish" is for a 'happy death,' that is, one which occurs when the Christian is FULLY PREPARED to meet his Maker.