In case there is any doubt, in light of recent media developments, then I will state it now, before God, the Internet, and the Federal Government: Please don't allow me to carry on in a pitiful approximation of "life", just for the sake of it. When I'm gone, let me be gone, and pull the plug.
Not that I'm terribly worried. My parents already understandthose wishes, and they've expressed the same thing to me. My mother sits on the ethics board at the hospital and so has to deal with issues like this all the time. As such, I think she's had the best comment I've heard on the Schiavo case yet. Isn't it funny how the same moralistic pricks that said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because it threatens the "sanctity" of marriage are happy to throw away that sanctity when it doesn't suit their purposes?
All issues of the specific case aside, I agree with Chuck. I can't understand how this has anything to do with the federal government. And every court has agreed that a spouse is the legal guardian. It's a rant I've hit before, but again, these are REPUBLICANS? The people who want to keep government out of our lives?
I don't know what the right decision for the family to make is, and its unfortunate that her husband and her parents can't agree. But let me just say on a personal level: If I haven't talked or sang or laughed or done something ridiculous for 15 YEARS, then pull the plug. 'Cause that's obviously not me in there.
Posted by ktismael at March 23, 2005 12:13 PM