Schiavo
posted by knobboy at 3/24/2005 11:41:00 PM
Thursday, March 24, 2005
The Ship of FoolsHieronymous Bosch (c. 1490/1500)
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2 Comments:
I believe a person has the right to refuse medical treatment, especially where it's only going to prolong death, or if the condition is such that the prospect of being able to live a meaningful life is nonexistent.
If someone is not incapacitated, it's pretty straighforward as to what intent is: you tell someone.
But if you are incapacitated, how are you going to do it? The most unambiguous way is with a Living Will/Health Care Declaration.
Absent that, what can you do? One thing is to attempt to determine intent based on statements made to other people. Which is what went on here.
There is more than a sufficient factual basis to conclude that Ms. Schiavo will never recover. She will never have any semblance of a meaningful life. It also has been proven that under such circumstances, it was Ms. Shiavo's intent that such life-prolonging efforts not be made.
This has been exhaustively litigated in Florida Courts. All parties have had an opportunity to be heard, and heard and heard again.
Her parents have to understand there is nothing more that can be done, their daughter is never coming back, and it's time to let her go.
The personal "Drama" one plays out is always based on selfish motives. Look close enough and you find the "What's in for me".
I feel - Her parents want her to "live" (if you want to call that life) for their own motives/guilt complex/penance/ whatever you want to call it. The motives are not their daughters', they are self-centered. It is near impossible to act out of "LOVE" (in the highest sense) from that orientation.
pt.
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