Terry Schiavo Redux (Updated) 2
Crusading against the facts of life and death in Italy. The lady in question has been in a coma for 16-years.
The usual crowd of fantasists insists on keeping the empty shell of her being “alive”:
But, in a moving interview with the Observer, Eluana’s father Beppino said last week that the doctors were carrying out his daughter’s wishes by allowing her to die. “If she couldn’t be what she was (before the accident in 1992) then she would not have wanted to live”.
Addendum:
Commentary from P. Z. Myers, via the Canadian Cynic.
February 9, 2009 at 6:33 am
If the Catholic Church would only get spiritual for a minute they would realize that the soul of Eluana Englaro has long since abandoned the bodily remains which are now artificially been kept from the death state and the normal process of decomposition. Merciful God has her spirit back with Him and won’t allow her to return to a crippled corpse. Fellows, please read some near death experiences and learn the truth. Give it up and let her soul remain in the promised land!
February 9, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I can’t say I have an opinion on the validity of “near death events,” but I agree.
There is more to life than the physical being. What makes us human is what lives in the head. Not whether the heart is still beating.
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