--It seems that people are willing to accept death as an alternative to disability.--
This is the high truth. I posted a question on one of my blogs this morning: What if you wrote "I want to die if I am badly incapacitated," but once you got badly incapacitated, you said, I want to live?
Would they respect your rights as a handicapped person? Or will you have become a non-person because you became handicapped?
Despite the wide acceptance of GHWB's "Americans with Disabilities Act," most Americans, or an increasing number, it seems, are not really "comfortable" around the handicapped and have no interest in saving their lives or getting them therpy. I wonder what GHWB had in mind when he signed that disabilities law. Obviously, it is meaningless (ignored by both his sons in this case) and an unfunded mandate on business.
but once you got badly incapacitated, you said, I want to live?
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That's if you can say: " I want to live". They are saying that she can't say : I want to live. But, they won't give her the therapy to be able to express that. Therefore, they see her as a non-person that she is not in there.. BS.. Somebody has got to stop this INSANITY..
I think that her body seeks to live. Everyday her body circulates blood, heartpumps it has a natural function toward life. Her mind want to live too. Even though she can't say she wants to live, her heart and mind seeks to continue toward life. How can anyone say that she doesn't want to live.. It's obvious she does.
When we are formed in our mothers womb the first fist size chunk of flesh=called a gut= seeks to eat. It forwards in life from that stage and eventually we form little bodies. My point is, all our basic functions and urges are programed to continue toward life.
It seems the news media are programming us toward this mind set of death with questionable poles containing questionable majority opinion.
Actually happened. A disabled person went to court to be allowed to die, and when she finally won, changed her mind and chose life.