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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
Why can't people see how important quality of life issues are? It's baffling to me.
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I think that term is too vague. It is undefinable person to person. I think in general, though, people do understand it. What is hard for me to understand in this case is why it is being assumed, by the word of one man, that she would not want to stay alive. And the word of that one man being permitted to starve her to death.
I have thought about the post of Scrooge in regards to if it is different than pulling the plug on the respirator, and if it is simply the length of time that it takes, and in reality it is no different issue. Technically I suppose no, but the length does make a difference.
There is a debate on the death penalty. We consider it inhumane to have hangings anymore and it's pretty much all lethal injection. Why? Why not starve someone on death row instead of a quick, painless injection? I would guess it is because it is inhumane.
So the argument came up that this is the only way to do it with laws as they are. So since the only way to end her life is horrid that's what will be done? That doesn't seem like the proper course of action.
She is not brain dead. She is not terminal. I would suspect that I wouldn't want to live that way, but not because of me - because I wouldn't want my children to have to wtch me like that after watching my own mom die a slow and painful death. Tough on a kid.
I can ramble on without saying much. I'm not even sure where I'm going with the post. It isn't her life or death that is causing me such angst. It is the method. It is the thought of her parents being forced to endure this process, wanting to simply care for their offspring and being told it is out of their hands and they must submit to her dieing of starvation (or dehydration, I suppose). As a parent it almost makes me physically ill.
As with my anger in earlier posts, anyone who could order that should just take a gun and go do it himself. For this to be permitted by law is sickening to me.