Please Try and Help Terri...... 4121

And her husband claims that she did. This is what courts are for-- resolving disputes. In this case the courts believed her husband.

Complete horsepoo. This is known as a straw man argument because it is known that this condition changes-- that desire for dissolution almost always disappears with time.

He has never talked to dieters, that is clear.

This is simply hypocrisy. The same governor sanctions the rest penalty. The gov't SHOULD stay out of this case. After this case is resolved, the gov't then should insbreastute a discussion of what the balance between the right to die and the duty of care should be. It is a valid discussion to have, with lots and lots of really difficult aspects to it. This case IS worrysome in its implications re the life of the most disavantaged. It is not "the slippery slope" precisely because so many people realise that this does impact on that discussion.

The society does NOT regard life as being the paramount good. They send young people, people with a huge amount to contribute, over to Iraq say to die. It drops plants knowing that those plants will kill people, people with huge amounts to contribute to their and our society. They do this because they feel that there are some things that are worth more than life. They do this KNOWING that many will be end.

So where do the boundaries lie. CLearly one does not want a society where anyone can be end at whim. Clearly most do not want a society in which the right to life is paramount, overruling all other considerations. Furthermore, I think that noone would say that society should pay say 1 billion dollars to save a life on a standard basis, should fill hospitals with people who are dying but who can be kept alive for another day-week-year, at the expense of making it impossible for the hospital to care of anyone whose disease is not immediately life threatening. So, there are borderline questions to be discussed. Where is that border? How do you best define it?

No it falls to us to think about the issues, and not to simply give in to emotional blindness.