Favorite part:
"I do not understand why people who want to save the whales (so do I) find campaigns to save humans so much less arresting. I do not understand their lack of passion. But the save-the-whales people are somehow rarely the stop-abortion-please people.
The PETA people, who say they are committed to ending cruelty to animals, seem disinterested in the fact of late-term abortion, which is a cruel procedure performed on a human.
I do not understand why the don't-drill-in-Alaska-and-destroy-its-prime-beauty people do not join forces with the don't-end-a-life-that-holds-within-it-beauty people."
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Death is nothing to be feared. It has no hold over a believer. It is simply a passage into the next stage of existence.
I have watched loved ones wither and die. It isn't a pretty site. The manner of my death holds more fear for me than actually dying.
I blogged about the hipocracy of both sides. If you believe she should be able to die, then you should fight for her right to die peacefully and quickly. If you believe she should not be able to die, then you should fight for her full recovery.
If you fight for Mrs. Schiavo to survive, then you should also fight for every one of the thousands who die each day. It is simply disingenuous to feign concern over Mrs. Schiavo when there are so many living who are actively suffering and who we can reach and make a significant improvement in their lives.
XT
Thurman:
Please read this post:
http://norrisadvisors.blogspot.com/2005/02/our-friend-mr-bee.html
for a bit of personal background.
I am deeply grieved by this. I am not feigning, and to suggest so is simply not fair to me. I try to live a life that shows care for the suferring who are alive.
Steve...
Question for you: At what point would you be comfortable with letting someone die? Unless you know more than what is published, it seems that Terry's situation does not compare (with all due respect) to your friend, Bee, who is able to talk and express thought. So I am confused as to why you feel you know more than her husband. I know you disapprove of the life-course he has taken (hence you referring to him as her ex), but his intentions are not completely known to you or me.
What troubles me most about this issue is how anyone other than her family (including her husband), know what is the “right” thing to do here. As a parent myself, I feel for both her parents and husband. While I would want to try everything to save her, I would also not want her to suffer for 15 minutes, and certainly not for 15 years. Hence my view of not to take sides. Some things just are not black and white, or right or wrong
There are good people (believes and non-believers) on both sides and on neither, and it saddens me when I see this made political (implied or otherwise) with your post above. To argue or imply that those on the left or those who don't support life-support for Terry lack passion. Nor does judging Terry's husband or ex-husband (however you want to label him) make your view any more right. Tearing down her husband does not add weight to your argument. Nor does tearing down her parents do the opposite.
Steve, do you think that it is in the realm of possibility that God wants her to pass and be with Him now… or 15 years ago… and that medicine has intruded upon His plan? Or do you know without a doubt that He wants her to live? If so, how do you know? Personally, I have no idea.
I wish I could see the love in these posts, but I feel compelled to comment that reading posts about Terry or your views on Iraq make me want to remain a follower of Christ, but away from the church. God loves you and me equally and to label those who think like me as having a “culture of death” or not “erring on life” is just hurtful and exclusionary.
But then again, a blog isn’t exactly what Christ had in mind when he commanded us to love one another. It just feels like AM talkradio.
God bless, Steve. And please know that this is not a reflection of you as a person since I don’t know you.
I did not mean to say that your feelings are not genuine. I meant to point out that this is only one person and there are many more who are suffering. To stop for this world and turn your back on everyone else does seem a bit arbitrary, though.
I have a great deal of sympathy for everyone involved. I think the manner of this woman's death is atrocious, and only slightly less so than the manner of not allowing her to die. The refusal on all sides to try and come to a consensus on the general condition, rather than simply one woman, means that others will have to endure this same sort of existence and death. That does not seem merciful to me in the least.
The comments about feigning concern were not directed at you, but rather at those who have stopped the world for one woman yet let thousands suffer without a second thought. From what I know of you, you hardly fit into this group.
XT
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