crankylex | (no subject)

If the amount of attention that is being focused on the Schiavo case were to be focused on a cause that involved people not in a persistent vegetative state, something useful might actually get done.

Instead, the President of the United States is now involved in keeping this woman in that same persistent vegetative state for the rest of eternity.

Let it be known here and now that if I should happen to fall into an irreversible coma or vegetative state, I do not want to be kept alive. I don't want a ventilator, I don't want a feeding tube. I don't want to be shocked back into life when my heart fails. I will already be gone. Let the husk go.

This is why everyone should have a living will. If the right to die offends your religious beliefs, you check off the box that say you want all means of life support provided. I have no religious beliefs to offend, so I would like the ability to choose for myself what happens to me.

I can't imagine what it must be like for her parents, but this isn't doing them any good either. Not only is there no closure for them, there is no hope for it. With her body maintained artificially, she might outlive them. And then what happens?

It's a sad, sad situation all around, but the last person that needs to be involved in it is George W. "OMGLIFEATALLCOSTSEVENIFITSNOTREALLYLIVING" Bush.