[cyn]

I sure wish I knew why they won't. I don't understand it! This was much discussed at the vigil.

Is it indifference? Is there some conflict of interest, some group putting pressure on them not to speak out or get involved in any way? Because you're right, most have not gotten involved with the exception you mention.

Is there anything to be gained, I've wondered, if I go in to talk to someone in the Catholic church locally (6 hrs from Terri) on Terri's behalf? May be better to ask it this way: Is there any thing to be lost . . . ? How might this be done for Terri?

[Robert Drobot]

A cynical voice might suggest religion is very much in the death business, and greatly concerned about their sources for endowments, bequests and other such vehicles of financial gifts squeezed from those near death.

The Florida death and dying business is controlled exclusively by the medical profession (pre and post use of body parts for research experimentation and income generation), the legal profession(wills, probate, foundations, tax laws), and the business of religion (grants, endowments, gifts, memoriams, dedications).

The poor sob looks up from his/her death bed surrounded by the three vultures eagerly waiting for his last heart beat, to commence the division of his physical and financial remains.

Is it just possible religion has a good thing going, especially in Florida, and is silent because it doesn't want to rock the boat?

Which reminds me, there was a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest on a boat in the middle of a shark infested ocean........

It isn't happenstance that these three entities are linked together.