To: syriacus
If it lived, aged, and died, then how was its death wrongful?
It doesn't matter how many stages the neglected person has lived through before dying from neglect. Living a particular number of days doesn't make one more or less human.
When a one-day-old baby dies through neglect, it's a wrongful death. When a child dies through neglect, it's a wrongful death.
When an elderly adult dies through neglect, it's a wrongful death.
So would you then agree that if a 7 celled blastosphere lived for 75 years and then died naturally (but without further cell division) that it's death would not be through neglect?
jas3
259 posted on
09/04/2006 1:09:21 PM PDT by
jas3
To: jas3
So would you then agree that if a 7 celled blastosphere lived for 75 years and then died naturally (but without further cell division) that it's death would not be through neglect? For the sake of clarity, let's name the 7-celled blastosphere, Melissa.
Melissa didn't bring herself into existence. Someone else's actions brought Melissa's tiny life into existence.
If someone deliberately stops supplying whatever is necessary to support Melissa's life, they are guilty of neglect.
261 posted on
09/04/2006 1:29:08 PM PDT by
syriacus
(Why wasn't each home in New Orleans required to have an inflatable life boat?)
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