Originally posted by TweetyBird
"Thou shall not kill" has no footnotes.
You have decided imposed starvation is dignity. Well *WE* disagree.
My grandfather died a few years ago, 97 years old.
He was bedridden for at least a year prior to his death. My uncle, who by geography was the brother who took immediate care of him, visited him daily, and for the last few months of conciousness, Grandfather did not recognize his own son.
When Grandfather went into a coma, Dad and my Uncle had some serious heart to hearts, and they decided it was time, and petitioned to have the tube pulled out.
The bastard doctor at the VA hospital had the gall to call my uncle a murderer. Dad was furious and got on the next plane.
My grandfather passed by the very same way Schiavo is going. There was no murderous intent on the part of my Uncle and Father. It was the most heart wrenching decision they ever made, but it was made with knowledge of inevitability and with the love of sons for a father.
We humanely put animals out of their misery but unfortunately we do not have the same regard for humans. If Schivo was a dog or a horse, she would have been put down long ago, and removal of a tube would not be an alternative.
