Right To Live

The Terri Schiavo case is another example of the justice system gone haywire. We have parents who want to keep their daughter alive, a husband who says he is following his wife's request that she didn't want to end up on life support like her grandmother, a Senate that is bent on making the most of this sad situation for political gain, and a public that is divided on the supporting life or allowing someone to die. The Pope stated one year ago that all life is sacred, whether that person is in a vegetative state or fully functioning. How far does the right to die go? If we start with Terri Schiavo do we then go to all of the people in a vegetative state? What about those that can't fend for themselves like the mentally disabled or the psychiatrically disabled? Do we then not feed those with Alzheimer's disease because they otherwise are not able to feed themselves? Life is precious at any stage from conception through our last breath on Earth. If we deprive Terri Schiavo of food and sustenance, what is to stop the next person who says that my wife, my husband, my son, my daughter, my widowed neighbor, et al, didn't want to be kept alive? Perhaps Terri Schiavo still has some say in this matter? Perhaps her reason for living for the past 15 years is to bring to light the meaning of life? It is said that God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps this is his way of getting us to the point of respecting life? Of course, it appears that many of the circuit judges don't take God into account in any of their decisions.