Countdown to Terri's Death: Part 2

We are in Day Nine of this countdown, and even Bob Schindler who is Terri's father says that she may not make it by this weekend.

You have to give the Schindlers credit. They are standing their ground and they won't back down. Forgive me Mr. Tom Petty

I keeped my ear on the talk radio regarding "Terri's Fight" so-called. Many conservative talk show hosts not surprisely are siding with the parents and much of the "right of life" movement on this. Gunny Bob Newman once sided with Michael's case but turned on him when Newman's research found that Michael could very be the bad guy, and Newman also takes marriage seriously. Reason enough but people do cheat on each other, sad but true.

Rush Limbaugh the "Godfather" of talk radio leaned on the agurments made by the Religous Right and looking towards Spirturalism along with his ever famous lambasting of Animal Right activists (and I am NOT an fan of PETA or most Animal Rights activists myself) to justify the means.

Michael Savage thinks we are one step closer to Nazi Germany, and a fill-in talk show on the Savage Nation warns that the United States has gone too far, and uses the Netherland's right to die law to back him up. It seems that in the Netherlands their are strict safeguards in place before someone can have their life ended, and their Should be such provisions. Maybe we can learn something from the jerks in Euro regarding "right to die" cases.

However not everyone on the "right" agrees. Last week before taking his vacation, Denver radio talk show host Mike Rosen sided with Terri's husband and said they he would not want to live the way Terri is living now. National syndcated talker Neal Boortz echoed the same statments and says it is time for Terri to pass on into the next life. Something that Boortz says "she has earned." Jon Caldara who also does a Denver talk show host reminds us that law falls on the next of kin, and if your in marriage that means its the husband or the wife. All of the above say that you should look into getting a "living will" making sure that your needs would be meet should you fall into something that Terri is stuck with now.

Another talker who is NOT a "gun-toten meat eating lefty" or just plain old left wing has come to the side of Boortz, Rosen, and Caldara. His name is Les Kinsolving. Check out his piece regarding Terri.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43480

Last night a caller on a KOA-AM Denver talk show told the listeners about a child that was in the similar state to Terri's. As a mother, she eventually made the choice to let that child go into eternal sleep. Sad but true, their many Terri Schiavo's out their. Terri Schiavo's case was brought before all of America to see. Their are shades of Rome regarding this.

Medical Technology has been a blessing and a curse. It has allowed us to living longer, and as a whole, the quallity life did improve for the human race. However it can be curse when you have a belief that life is scared and man must keep alowing that "gift" to people it may be a living hell on Earth to those like Terri.

You may think I sound like a Nazi on this one but please ask yourself this question. If you were in Terri's place would you want to live the way she is living? Think long and hard about before you answer.

The arguments made by the religous right is that only God should decide to give and take life away and that we must not interfere. Guess what, we ARE interfering. We are prolonging life, and it could be that we are prolonging someone that may not be able to to recover. Granted you should try to see if their is anyone up their in that head before you allow the body to shut down, but if their is not then it is time to let it go.

I feel for the Schindlers and their soon loss of their daughter. If someone way or somehow they can "save" their beloved Terri, then more power to them. If the courts somehow come to your way of thinking, just be prepared to take care of Terri like you would a human baby or a living plant for the rest of her days here on Earth. Yes I will use the term "living plant" since some see Terri in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS).

I also hope that Randall Terry and the others that have supported the Schindlers contuine to give their support. Not just with money, but maybe some love and affection cause I have seen less love in many religous people these days. That lack of love from religionists has driven me towards the libertarian beliefs that I now hold.

For the most part I am not a supporter of the humanist group think, since most of them support a socalist government which I am in not in favor. However when it comes to Terri I do agree with them more/less.

I shall end this post here.