[MHGinTN]

There are mean-spirited people having fun at your expense. It amuses them that you care about Terri being put down by the florida judicial rubber stamptroopers. You are getting a glimpse of what the last days will be replete with ... the gods of this world enjoys tormenting those with compassion and uses those with smart remarks and dead souls to toss out the taunts. Don't give them the attention they so desperately seek to wallow in.

[EternalVigilance]

Well, someone has to expose them for what they are.

For the lurkers, if nothing else.

I agree with you though about what is being exposed.

"In the last days, men will be lovers of themselves...brutal..."

[maica]

I looked in an old college Ethics book today out of curiosity. It was written between 1929 and 1931 as a series of lectures at Boston College. Long before bio-ethics became a word.

Even back then there was a clear argument against suicide and the destruction of "useless members of society." Both of these items were discussed together referring to the principle that our life on earth is not an end to itself but "for perfect happiness...to be attained in the future life."

"As for incurables and the feeble-minded, surely the example of heroic patience and fortitude manifested by the former, and the equally heroic patience and self-sacrifice and devotion of those who spend their lives in the care of the latter, are examples of virtues of which the effeminate society of the present time stands sorely in need"---Special Ethics, Joseph F Sullivan, SJ, page 36 [NB: Society was already being called "effeminate" in 1930

Poor Terri was both incurable and feeble-minded, but her death should not have come at the time of a judge's choosing, but of God's choosing.