If you all will serve as my shrink for the moment, I will discuss my deep fears. What I fear the most is not death but the manner of death. The way they killed Terry Schiavo put a deep fright in me.
If the law is going not just approve of euthanasia but actually mandate it - and I bitterly disagree with the law - I don’t think treating humans worse than dogs is appropriate. I mean, when your dog gets sick and you have to put him down, you do it as painlessly and quickly as we know how. But when they killed Terry Schiavo they did it using the slowest, perhaps most brutal method known to man — they let her starve and die of dehydration!
Why not load them up with Heroin and let them enjoy the ride out? If you must stop the heart, do it when the patient is unconscious. I mean, take every precaution to make sure there is no pain and no psychological torture either. What we did was barbaric, we wouldn’t treat our pets that way why the courts play this game of “well, we didn’t actually kill her, we just withdrew food and water” they knew exactly what they were doing and lacked the courage to admit it. I hate them more for that than for anything else.
Not only this but they also:
A. Claimed that she was feeling "euphoric" due to the dehydration, which is odd because if she was in a "permanent vegetative state" as was claimed she wouldn't be able to "feel" anything.
B. Loaded her up with morphine, which is odd because they claimed that she was in a "permanent vegetative state" which meant she shouldn't have needed morphine or, conversely, that she was "euphoric" which would also negate the need for morphine.