Something to think about...
This whole right to die case in Florida has been in the news a lot lately. I don't care to get into the specifics of the case, because there are any number of other places that have beat this issue to a pulp. But I was listening to Mark Belling's radio talk show last week and he brought up what I think was a great point.
This woman is going to die from starvation, and there is apparently a sizable chunk of the population that is ok with that. We all know how the politicians have come down on this issue...
Mark's point was - would it be ok with those people if the husband just walked into the hospital room and shot this woman to death?
After all, that would be a more humane way of dying than starving to death for two weeks, wouldn't ya think? I'd take a death by gunshot long before a death by starving.
What if the husband walked in and choked her to death, would that be ok with the people who are for "letting this woman die"?
After all, I would rather be choked to death, than to starve to death.
Society is twisted in this way. If we are ok with "letting this woman die", we could at least do it in a way that would be quick and painless for everyone. Starving someone for two weeks until they die of "natural causes" is unnecessary and inhumane.
I don't want to take comments on this post about the actual case, because like I said, its being discussed everywhere already. But it's just something to think about in the grand scheme of life.
Why is it ok for this husband to decide to "let her die" by starving her, but (probably) not ok to just shoot her, or choke her, and be done with it?
peace nick
This woman is going to die from starvation, and there is apparently a sizable chunk of the population that is ok with that. We all know how the politicians have come down on this issue...
Mark's point was - would it be ok with those people if the husband just walked into the hospital room and shot this woman to death?
After all, that would be a more humane way of dying than starving to death for two weeks, wouldn't ya think? I'd take a death by gunshot long before a death by starving.
What if the husband walked in and choked her to death, would that be ok with the people who are for "letting this woman die"?
After all, I would rather be choked to death, than to starve to death.
Society is twisted in this way. If we are ok with "letting this woman die", we could at least do it in a way that would be quick and painless for everyone. Starving someone for two weeks until they die of "natural causes" is unnecessary and inhumane.
I don't want to take comments on this post about the actual case, because like I said, its being discussed everywhere already. But it's just something to think about in the grand scheme of life.
Why is it ok for this husband to decide to "let her die" by starving her, but (probably) not ok to just shoot her, or choke her, and be done with it?
peace nick
posted by Nick at
11:16 AM
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Read this post taking the opposite view at Read My Lips. By the way, are feeding tubes a natural way to eat, or an invention by man. Had man not invented the feeding tube, would she not have died long ago?
Too weird, just posted on the same topic on my own blog, (http://www.sillystormtrooper.com)
Differnet slant but same message, we treat convicted killers better then we do the terminally ill.
This woman is not terminally ill.
As far as using human inventions to survive...
What hasnt man invented besides plants and air? 95% of us would be dead without human inventions.
Im not sure I understand that logic.
peace nick
Yes, I’m aware the women in Florida isn’t terminally ill, I was making an analogy concerning the right to die issue in my post. However, It all revolves around the same central theme, what we do for people who are dying or for those that the quality of life is so minimal compared to how we legally execute someone convicted of heinous crime.
This isnt a case of right to die, because this woman is not asking to die.
Her husband is seeking the right to kill her, because she cannot feed herself.
There is a difference.
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