Check out Kate at Small Dead Animals on the Terri Schaivo case. Despressing, isn't it, that so many media outlets are calling it a right to die story. Terri does not want to die; or if she does no one knows that.
What we do know is that her creepy husband wants her to die and he stands to gain a large financial windfall if she does. He's hardly an unbiased or objective "caregiver." This woman is not attached to machines that keep her alive. What's being proposed here is to deny her food and water, simply because she's too weak to do anything about it. Any of us could find ourselves in her situation - especially if we are active, play sports, clean the roof, slip in ice, etc. There but for the grace of God...
If you should watch the Oscars this weekend (I never ever do), I hope you'll think of Terri when Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby comes up for best picture. The script doesn't even make sense. The boxer fights hard and overcomes great odds and we cheer. So far, so good. Then she's injured and wants to give up. See the incongruity?
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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