Is her death that painful?

Tonight, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that it would not overturn the decision that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be removed. As she gradually heads toward the stairway to heaven, her family keeps bickering over if she suffers pain or not. Her parents, in disillusion, hopes Governor Jeb Bush will do something, and the politicians in Washington scramble the take advantage of the situation. People forget what is really important. Is her death that significant that painful?

She has been on bed for 1/3 (or 15 years) of her life. Doctors believe that she is brain-dead. She shows no sign of recovering. What does she feel? Not good, we suppose. The issue comes, should we allow her to end her life? or we have to let her suffer. My answer is that she should pass away.

First of all, she won't ever (or has a very slim chance) become conscious again. Try wearing her shoes, and see how she feels. I seriously do not think there is any meaning of letting her live.

Second, the money to sustain her comes from taxpayers' pocket. In fact, it is not her husband or her parents who are paying for the cost. Even though the cost would be tiny for each person who lives in Florida, will anyone benefit from her living? Someone somewhere in Florida needs the health care, and the chance of that someone lives and be healthy is exponentially higher than Mrs. Schiavo, who has lay in bed for 15 years. If people say it is not humanitarian to let her die, I can argue that it is not humanitarian to let that someone die either.

Third, her husband is not paying anything toward the cost. However, he has been consistently advocating for letting her die. If he loses the cases, he is the one who needs to pay for everything, (the trial, his lawyers and Schlinder's lawyers). Come to think about it, why is he doing that? Though there are evidences of him abusing her a long time ago, we have to admire his living this sad time with her. If your spouse is going to die but hasn't died for 15 years, it is painful for you too. Also, they are married, so this is the business between the husband and wife, not her parents' business, not the Christian Right's buiness, and not the politicians' business. We have to respect that.

In conclusion, it is her life, so she should decide herself. However, since she is unconscious, we have to appromixate how she feels. Everyone, imagine that you were her. and think about it. Is "your" death that painful when you have been in bed for 15 years???