Something else for those so eager to judge the value of others' lives.
Have you ever visited a nursing home and talked to those little people? Sure many are pitiful - but just look at the gentleness, the sweet eyes, and those little gnarled hands. They are precious people who have lived their years of contribution to this world and are winding down.
They have lost a lot - they have lost the meaness, the competitiveness, the drives that made them do good or evil. They are again like children with gentle spirits.
The innocence you see in the eyes of children, you will see in the eyes of the elderly, the deformed, the PVS, the severely handicapped. Each has faced hardships and come through it better people.
God does not consider these lives of no value. These lives paint a picture and what you see when looking at that picture is the beauty of humbleness, innocence, hardships endured, life lived.
And God expects them to be treated with loving kindness and care not death-dealing manipulating staff and relatives calculating how to kill them.
They will go in God's time, not our time. He has a different plan and a different schedule and we may not understand any of it. Sometimes, God keeps them around to test US, to see how we will treat them and to serve them. "Unto the least of these..."