Mansfield Fox

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Thursday, April 07, 2005

I Put on My Theocrat-Subversive Hat Again

Father Rob Johansen reports that another non-terminally ill woman is being medically dehydrated-to-death. Unlike Terri Schiavo, this woman is definitively not PVS or comatose. And, unlike Terri Schiavo, she has a living will, which indicates that she doesn't want the feeding tube removed unless she's vegetative or comatose. What she does have is a granddaughter who's "prayed over" her grandmother and decided it's "time for her to go".

This is the kind of world we're living in, in which the strong get to kill the weak when they've determined it's time for them to go. Even if we assume (and this is, I think, a heroic assumption) that those who decide are always acting in what they believe to be the best interests of those they kill, this is still pretty ghoulish.

Everybody to the barricades! For Mae Margourik!

UPDATE: Sweet.