In the news is the spectacle of a woman on life support. Her husband wants to let her go, her parents, in legitimate anguish, want to keep her alive. President Bush and Congress want to interfere, for the benefit of the GOP and the sake of weakening the Constitution yet again.
I feel for the woman, her parents and most of all her husband. Let her live or let her die, but give him his life. Set him free from burden, obligation and pain. Let her parents work it out.
How can I say this? My mother was hemi-plegic and aphasiac for 12 years. I would give up the years after college all over again, but I would never wish it on anyone else.
My sister and I have a pact not to let the other linger in a vegetative state inasmuch as strokes happened to two generations on my mother's side, and for all I know, more.
Still... Ms. Schiavo is not the one really suffering. It is her family. If Congress and the GOP had a brain and a heart, they would pass legislation that allows her husband his freedom. He needs a life. If she wakes up some day, she will have to understand. Chances are she won't remember anyway.
It's too bad she can't speak. I imagine if I was her I'd say I was just hanging on for Mom and Dad.
1 comment:
What I find really sad is that she is dead already. Terri doesn't live there anymore. How horrible that would be. If it were my child I couldn't stand to see her like that.
J
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