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Life And Death
by Andrew Cohen

DENVER (CBS4)

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If Thompson's end was predictable, and my friend Dan's was not, there is also this week the continuing saga of the Schiavos. Terri Schiavo's husband says that she would not have wanted to live in her current brain-damaged state and years ago he went to court and got an order permitting him to remove her feeding tube. Her parents, on the other hand, believe she would have wanted to live this way or at least that she did not tell her husband that he could pull the plug. They, too, have gone to court and are fighting Terri's husband every step of the way.

For years now the case has gone back and forth. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled. The state legislature and the governor have had their say and continue to look for ways to keep Schiavo alive. It is a case that is as unseemly and grotesque as it is dramatic. A woman on the edge of live and death now is a political and legal and religious and even moral football, tossed back and forth between the courts. And that brings me to the Supreme Court's decision early this week to look into Oregon's "death with dignity" law; a policy choice that a majority of voters in that state have made over the course of the past few years.

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