Wednesday, March 30, 2005

I know it's distracting....

A private, family matter concerning the life and/or death of a wife, daughter, and sister that has been locked in a vegetative state for the past 15 years with an atrophied cortex most of which is filled with spinal fluid. It's distracting to have the executive, legislative, and judiciary (with the sage exception of the Supreme Court) branches of the federal government trying to overturn state government and law by interjection of "political capital". The "culture of life", who supports killing thousands of human beings in Iraq, as well as hundreds on death row, saw fit to have an emergency Sunday session of congress. The president left his vacation early (Is that a first?). The urgent and hastily signed legislation was not for the genocide in Sudan, not for Our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not for the Columbine-like killings in Red Lake High School in Minnesota, but for a case like thousands of others (including Delay's father in 1988) where a family is divided on the final outcome of a loved one's life. If the Schindlers and Schiavos lived in Texas this may have all played out differently. In 1999 George W. Bush signed the Texas Futile Care Law. This law gives hospitals the right to remove life support regardless of the family' wishes. A baby (Sun Hudson) was removed from life support against his mother's wishes this week (Thursday) in Texas. I normally don't link to blogs, but the Houston Chronicle has scrubbed the story.

On March 30, 2005 Terri Schiavo died. May her final rest be more peaceful than her final days.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been
The meaning of the life has been lost in the wind
And some people thinkin' that the end is close by
"Stead of learnin' to live they are learning to die.
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground.

-Bob Dylan

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