Friday, March 25, 2005
I don't get the Schiavo thing.
Here's the thing about Terry Schiavo, I don't care. I've never met this woman and I never will and I fail to see how she's unlike the thousands of other people who die in this country every day.
How is it that people are getting themselves all worked up over this? I can understand her husband's point of view. I can understand her parents' point of view, and even though I wouldn't have taken the course they've chosen to travel, I can sympathize with their dilemma. Beyond that, I could not care less whether this woman lives or dies except that I can take a moment and recognize the frailty and beauty of human life.
When my parents died I was obviously emotionally involved and both of them essentially spent their last few weeks dwindling between living and not quite living. I was directly attached to the situation and dealt with it the best way I could. I did not expect for anyone who was not directly attached to behave the same way or feel how I was feeling and, quite frankly, if they did it would have been a little weird. I certainly wouldn't expect someone who'd never met my father or my mother to feel for their losses except to think that maybe it was too bad.
The courts have time and again made the same decision regarding her life, so the issue seems fairly cut and dry from that standpoint as well. For Congress to get involved is deplorable. At the end of the day the decision is not about whether she should live or die, but about who gets to make the decision. If we're stripping these rights from the immediate next of kin, the husband in this case, then we're opening a can of worms that shouldn't be opened. If the husband were fighting for her to live and the parents for her to die, this issue would have been dealt with years ago.
All of these people who are protesting on either side of the debate should just go home, write themselves a living will, and forget about it. What percent of the people who are protesting currently have living wills, I'm wondering? I'd bet very few.
How is it that people are getting themselves all worked up over this? I can understand her husband's point of view. I can understand her parents' point of view, and even though I wouldn't have taken the course they've chosen to travel, I can sympathize with their dilemma. Beyond that, I could not care less whether this woman lives or dies except that I can take a moment and recognize the frailty and beauty of human life.
When my parents died I was obviously emotionally involved and both of them essentially spent their last few weeks dwindling between living and not quite living. I was directly attached to the situation and dealt with it the best way I could. I did not expect for anyone who was not directly attached to behave the same way or feel how I was feeling and, quite frankly, if they did it would have been a little weird. I certainly wouldn't expect someone who'd never met my father or my mother to feel for their losses except to think that maybe it was too bad.
The courts have time and again made the same decision regarding her life, so the issue seems fairly cut and dry from that standpoint as well. For Congress to get involved is deplorable. At the end of the day the decision is not about whether she should live or die, but about who gets to make the decision. If we're stripping these rights from the immediate next of kin, the husband in this case, then we're opening a can of worms that shouldn't be opened. If the husband were fighting for her to live and the parents for her to die, this issue would have been dealt with years ago.
All of these people who are protesting on either side of the debate should just go home, write themselves a living will, and forget about it. What percent of the people who are protesting currently have living wills, I'm wondering? I'd bet very few.
# posted by ChuckJerry : 3/25/2005 05:38:00 PM
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you will never understand how it feels to lose a child parents are supposed to die before their children thank god your parents are dead
selfish pig
selfish pig
# posted by 
: Saturday, March 26, 2005
: Saturday, March 26, 2005
I agree with that first commenter until the end there.
After looking at my grandmother when my mother died I realized that she was experiencing something wholly different than what I was.
At the same time, while you're supposed to outlive your parents, you're not supposed to lose them at 16, which is how old I was when my mother died.
Even given all of these "supposed to's", though, to keep your child alive in such an un-alive state is fairly selfish, if all you're going on is "supposed to's".
After looking at my grandmother when my mother died I realized that she was experiencing something wholly different than what I was.
At the same time, while you're supposed to outlive your parents, you're not supposed to lose them at 16, which is how old I was when my mother died.
Even given all of these "supposed to's", though, to keep your child alive in such an un-alive state is fairly selfish, if all you're going on is "supposed to's".
A "compassionate conservative", I bet. What a scumbag.
Man, and I thought my own commenters were harsh.
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Man, and I thought my own commenters were harsh.
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