Ok, you support the right of the state to have total control over you and your family - no matter the justness, morality of the laws.
You thoroughly trust lawmakers to make perfect law that will never kill you or your family member.
You know fully all the changes to the laws in your state that are being initiated in regard to "right to live".
In this case, the laws were set up to allow more and more leeway in determining "brain dead". Now PVS, now questionable PVS, now "unrecoverable condition". Now hearsay evidence is ok - meaning a neighbor can override a family member in stating your last wishes. Now the living will can be ignored by physicians (because it is the state you know).
So, my question - how are these laws being handled? Who is deciding death for us?
And - no - if there is a law that violates the constitutional rights of a civilian, than it is the right of individuals to get that law changed, to ask why, to demand change.
Which is what I am doing and will keep on doing.
I also notice that so many of the "conservatives" don't care that government is in the killing business. Seems really weird when they fight for "little government" involvement. Or is it no involvement - unless it means I can profit from their overstepping the constitutional rights of the weaker citizens?
I am astounded at the blindness, the ignorance, or the beliefs of those that chose to rant continually against those that see the Terri situation for what it is - the state killing its own citizens who are in a non-dying state.
Just who will be next. Just be sure you do not get in a wreck and have to depend on the law.
One could just as easily make the case that this is what you're position would entail -- the state stepping in and interfering with private family decisions.