[dmz]

I’m not going to rehash the whole Schiavo debate here for the death cult Freepers.
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I don’t really give a rat’s behind what you do or do not do. I asked you a question, you chose to answer with a question that I actually bothered to answer. Your best response then is to charge with me a purely semantic argument, and call me a death cult freeper, never actually bothering to address the topic that you posted a thread about. OK.

[ElkGroveDan]

OK, here’s my answer: I don’t believe there is a sharp distinction between “minimally conscious” and “vegetative” especially with something as complex as the human brain. Such categories are man-made subjective classifications. Nor do I accept the characterization of Terri as “vegetative” since there were numerous people with impressive credentials on both sides of that diagnosis. With so much doubt, there is never any good reason to put to death an innocent human being.

Therefore, this case is ENTIRELY comparable to the Schiavo case. I am sure that if enough money were at stake and enough lawyers involved someone could easily have made a good case to kill this poor man several years ago, inculding a self-serving oral recollection that "it's what he would have wanted."