[Saber Cherry]

Who cares? If my head was cut off and thrown in a garbage disposal, but my body was kept alive with tubes, would I care if my heart stopped beating? No.

Who gave the government the right to force families to waste their money on brainless lumps of flesh? I don't see that in the Constitution anywhere. Rather, I see that people have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... but a person is a thinking entity... and thus, brain-dead people, who can't make choices anymore, or have happiness, are no longer really people. So, for example, if I cut off my finger, it would not have any rights, because it is not a person. But let's pretend that brain-dead lumps of human flesh are actually people. Then I would say, the family of the lump of flesh has a right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, and being saddled with high medical bills that serve no purpose is a violation of their rights.

-Cherry

P.S. I'm not saying her husband isn't disgusting - maybe he is, I don't know him - but I don't see why vast amounts of resources should be wasted on the dead when there are live people starving and homeless. There are only finite resources, you know... and every million dollars spent on life-support of a corpse for a year is a million dollars that can't be used to feed 2,000 people at a soup kitchen for a year.

[ October 15, 2003, 22:21: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]