' O'Rourke has been following cases such as Schiavo's for years. He says that whenever he talks to groups around the country, he'll ask people in the audience to assume they have been in a vegetative state for several years but are able to come out of it for just 10 seconds to say something. Would you tell your loved ones to continue keeping you alive in this fashion? ''Nobody ever says yes,'' O'Rourke notes. Talks to groups of what? Sheep? Cattle? I wouldn't want to put the moral burden of having to rationalize away starving me to death, upon my family. I'd say "you can refrain from everything else, but don't dehydrate or starve me to death."
Talks to groups of what? Sheep? Cattle? I wouldn't want to put the moral burden of having to rationalize away starving me to death, upon my family. I'd say "you can refrain from everything else, but don't dehydrate or starve me to death." I still can't believe a priest would say this. It has shocked me to the core, frankly.
Time to curl up in a fetal position.