[MarMema]

Calling Ms. Anderson a "crusader" is ridiculous

I will be blunt with you Pam. Is Ms. Anderson a Catholic? If she is not then the family she is representing are. If this is not a subtle slur toward Catholics, then I am not getting enough sleep. :-)

[phenn]

I kind of picked up on that as well. Ms. Anderson has publicly said that she is not a Catholic. I'm not entirely certain what her faith is, but I know that she views killing people as wrong. Since this is not a case of allowing a terminal patient to die naturally and is, instead, a case of aggressively pursuing someone's death, it's easy to see why people of all denominations consider this murder.

The husband's attorney, George Felos, has publicly stated (MANY times) that people who support Terri's right to a safe and natural life are "right-wing, religious fanatics".

I went to a site called Beliefnet and looked up euthanasia and the attitudes of it from what some might consider "alternative" belief systems.

Buddhists, Hindus, Urantiaists, Wiccans and even Agnostics consider it wrong for varying reasons. So much for us "fanatics".

Terri was and is a practicing Catholic. She was very supportive of NOT hurrying the death of her own grandmother and even coaxed her parents into spending every spare dime they had to medically assist the family dog as opposed to having him euthanized. Her family believes that the combination of her personal faith and her actions in these two situations would make any "death wish" her husband alleges completely and utterly out of character.

-P-