I hate to sound like a jerk, but I wish everyone protesting the removal of Terri Shiavo’s feeding tube one day of complete immobility and dependence on others and machines to stay alive. I wish them one day locked inside their heads unable to communicate with the outside world or do a single thing for themselves. Not so that they’ll wish for death, but just so they can understand the weight of the decision they are trying to make for someone else.
I saw a woman in the news standing outside the hospital with a sign the read “The World Needs Terri to Live.” Now, contrast this with the situation in Iraq. Today I attended a memorial commemorating the second anniversary of the Iraq war. We placed a tombstone on Art Hill for every US soldier killed in Iraq. Each stone also had the name of an Iraqi civilian.
I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that we live in a world where a million Iraqis were allowed to die of malnutrition and treatable illnesses due to sanctions since the first Gulf War, where tens of thousands have been killed in a bullshit war that has also taken the lives of 1,500 of our own soldiers and yet the world needs Terri Shiavo to live out purposeless existence even if it is against her will.
Injured National Guardsmen and reservists can’t get quality medcal care and yet we want this poor woman to live out the kind of prolonged death that only modern medical science can provide.
Good post, man.
I wish them one day locked inside their heads unable to communicate with the outside world or do a single thing for themselves.
amen. Although I think Randall Terry deserves at least a week in this state…at my house.
Amen!
PS – Awesome shots!
It’s an interesting commentary on society isn’t it? And the fact that congress has stepped into the issue just makes it crazier. The last people I want involved in my medical care is our government.
Thank you
Thank you