I swear to Goddess, if I live to be 100...

[themostepotente]

I will never understand how some people think. Has anyone been following the Terri Schiavo case?

For those of you that haven't the slightest clue as to what I'm talking about, here's a brief synopsis.

Terri Schiavo has been, and I quote, in a 'persistive vegetative state' for FIFTEEN years, and her poor husband who just wants to move on has been given shit in large doses for wanting to end her suffering. And now there's this big brouhaha over reinserting her feeding tube.

This woman is not going to just to snap out of it. She ain't getting better.

Fifteen years? How is relying on a feeding tube considered 'living?' Where is the fucking 'quality of life' these assholes protest in favor of by taping the word 'LIFE' over their mouths?

Oh, this fucking pisses me off. The staunch Republicans would have us live in the fucking stone age, I swear.

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Comments

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, they're trying to own her body, and her life, by forcing this torture on it ( her body) and her. If the Republicans win, then there will be case precedent for the gov't owning our collective bodies and lives, and is that anything but slavery?
If the tube is reinserted, it'll be another surgery for her. They've already done it to her once. Is that not cruel and unusual punishment for having the balls to tell your executor ( in this case her husband) that she doesn't want to be kept alive artificially?

The whole thing pisses me off.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

It really smacks of the abortion issue, doesn't it? The government telling you what you can and can't do with your own body.

I hate wearing a seatbelt, likewise a helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Granted, it's suicide on my part to insist on not wearing either, but shouldn't it be my decision if I'm willing to face whatever consequences?

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

Thats the thing, the body, as defined by the current law , would be the property of the state were it not for Roe vs. Wade. We're talking everything from unwanted medical treatments to forced relocation. All of this is making me think of Foucalt's "Discipline and Punish".