> Dana wrote: > nnnnoooo, I don't think so. I am simply trying to put myself in her > place.
Just curious, but what do you think her place is? At a minimum she's massively brain damaged and whoever she was is most likely gone forever. What's there today is just the empty container that used to hold her. I guess we'd all hold out hope that if we were in her position some new therapy would come along and restore us as if we'd been in a coma. Sadly though, she's not in a coma so we have a good gauge of where she's at. In all probability there's no therapy that could ever restore her if the cells that held the "her" encoding have died. That means that Ms. Schiavo passed away 15 years ago and the question today is what do we do with this new person? >From this perspective, oddly, Terri, although gone, still owns her "container" which is actually a human. Were she here the law says it's her decision on what's to be done with the container even though it's a person. But because she's gone this decision falls onto her husband. As bio-engineering becomes more advance and we start getting products like new organs grown specifically for you, from you, these decisions become verrrryyyy tricky. Back to reality though, if it were my wife, I'd keep her on life support. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148726 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
