[xJones]

Wagglebee, I'll pay you the compliment of asking a simple honest question, because I wonder what you and others think. If by some tragic reason you or I were left in a persistant vegetative state like Sunny von Bulow or Peggy Railey would you want that kind of life? And I mean a persistant vegetative state that had lasted for years. Forty or more years ago we would have died at the time of the injury, but now we have these machines and devices to keep those bodies warm.

Honestly, would you want to be kept alive like that? Personally, I wouldn't. Let me die and go home to God. Would you want your body to be kept in a permanent vegetative state for many years?

And this ISN'T about euthanasia and killing people, it's a matter of what YOU would personally want. Don't bring Terry Schiavo into because we'll never know what she would have wanted, and we'll always think her husband had been trying to kill her for years.

This is a just a personal question because I'd like to know what you and other Freepers think.

[BykrBayb]

Would you want your body to be kept in a permanent vegetative state for many years?

People are easier to kill if you pretend they aren't really people. If you pretend that their dead corpses are being desecrated, you can pretend you're justified in ending the practice. If you admit the truth, that they are indeed people, the whole justification for killing them falls apart.