The right to keep alive.

I don’t sound off on political and social issues that often, and when I do it’s usually with a bang. But this time I’ll be short, mostly because I don’t enjoy talking about this, and it demands a certain sensitivity.

Let Terri Schiavo die.

There, I said it. Let God do what he would have normally done - take the woman and deal with her soul. She’s not alive, not by any objective standard of life. Man and medicine have managed to keep her bodily functions working, and keep her fed - but for what purpose?

I’ve heard people condemn those doctors who removed the tube as “playing God”. Maybe. But only because someone played God before, and put the thing in. God gives, God takes away. That’s a central maxim of the scriptures. One of the things he gives and takes away is life. For a reason.

Man has played God by artificially prolonging the life of a person who will die if the artificial means are eliminated. And unlike life-saving surgery or antibiotics (both of which help the body do what the body is supposed to do to a healthy person), this person, Terri Schiavo, gains nothing from it. She remains objectively dead already.

Even if she could, she wouldn’t feel herself slowly dehydrating to death. It seems modern science has taken care of that, too.

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Posted March 30th, 2005 in main.

4 comments:

  1. shan:

    Thank you for that perspective. It helps me find a place where I stand on an issue that seemed a little gray.

    shan

    March 31st, 2005 at 3:33 am
  2. - Gus -:

    Kinda simpleton approach.

    April 4th, 2005 at 8:09 am
  3. Scatterfingers:

    Occam’s razor, my friend.

    April 4th, 2005 at 8:31 am
  4. - Gus -:

    You take for granted that she was in a PVS .. but is she ?

    Either admit your killing her and do it, Or say that her life is sacred and let it be.

    To end a life that is not ending itself is wrong.. ALLWAYS.

    April 7th, 2005 at 12:36 pm

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