Terry Schiavo: the dilemma

MSNBC – Court: Schiavo feeding tube won’t be reinserted
It’s the hot topic in the news. I don’t know all the facts in the case and have been staying out of the discussion on purpose. It’s interesting an intersting and challenging question to say the least and has people coming out staunchly in one camp or another. I’m not sure where I stand, but am leaning toward the ‘let her go’ camp.

What a mess. When congress gets involved in an issue like this things tend to get even messier. Mrs Schiavo as a thinking feeling person is for all intents and purposes not even there any more. Apparenlty the portion of her brain that identity and awareness existed in has been destroyed. I don’t envy the position her husband is in, having to make his wife’s wishes known without a written will. Her parents (as parents are rightly apt to) do not want to see their daughter pass away prior to them and are holding hope, apparently futily, that there is hope for Terry’s recovery. People say she is being ‘starved to death’ and that’s wrong. However, if there’s no ‘person’ left how can anyone but the people around her be suffering? In my opinion letting her go would help everyone to move along with their own lives.

The whole debacle makes me want to draw up a living will. I’ll state right now and publically so, I do NOT want to be kept alive by artificial means if the person I am now no longer exists.