Hear it from Melissa!
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"Well, whaddaya know? The Pope and I actually agree on something. I’m ready for him to die, too. (Emphasis added.)
”Is it too much to hope that with the religious right's holy woman-child icon Terri Schiavo having died, and Falwell and Popesy looking ready to keel at any moment, that this is finally evidence that there is no God, or that if there is, he's not taking calls from the wingnuts anymore?”
Melissa McEwen Is an Anti-Catholic Bigot
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One of the arguments in the publicized Terri Schiavo case in 2005 was that her quality of life wasn't good, and therefore her feeding tube should be removed so she would starve to death.
Let me make it clear that I am not taking a stance on the Schiavo issue one way or the other, because there were many other factors involved.
But the focus of my argument is the mindset of people regarding the significance of human life.
Although experts concluded that with proper therapy, Schiavo very possibly one day could be able to eat on her own, speak and maybe even walk again, the torture in her eyes as she slowly and miserably perished were real feelings coming from a real human being.
This was only one life lost, so there wasn't a significant decline in population when she died, but it's the mentality of people regarding the issue that's so dangerous in my eyes.
Who has the right to set the standard for what quality of life is or isn't? When people are permitted to make those judgments, there's no telling what could happen.
Maybe if we let the world set the standards, our grandparents one day will be too old to have a good quality of life just based on their age and therefore will be euthanized.
Or maybe terminally ill patients will be exterminated upon diagnosis despite a history of miraculous recoveries in former cases.
In a world where abortion is used as birth control and the standard set for the quality of another person's life is determined by those outside of the circumstance, those ideas don't seem that farfetched.
Overpopulation: It's issue of ethics rather than space
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