omjaram wrote:
> A lot of goings on in the U.S. news lately around someone not leaving
> their express desires regarding this subject in writing.
>
> Therefore to avoid what I see as the degrading and hypocritical
> manipulation of another's humanity, I wish to make this statement for
> my family and friends to read. I am using this medium because I believe
> my statement will be searchable in perpetuity (Thank you, google!).
>
> I omjaroo, omjaram, Jared, do hereby state that under no circumstances
> do I wish to be kept alive using "extraordinary" medical methods.
> Should I be deemed to be in a persistent vegetative state I wish all
> life support to be removed. I unequivocally believe in euthanasia and a
> person's right to die should they so choose. (I also believe in
> reincarnation and that wherever a person leaves off in this life they
> will start up again in the next, so there is little use in deliberately
> ending one's life early.) In addition when I die I wish that my
> entire body be donated to science to be used and disposed of as needed.
>
>
> Really though, because of my past and because I am poor, I doubt anyone
> is going to go out of their way, to keep me alive. But just in case :-)
>
> Namaste
>


Omjaram,

I understand your gesture and feel musch as you do about having my body
kept alive in such a situation. But understand that the large majority
of people who are fighting to "save" Schiavo wouldn't care that you have
left this note. They will try to find a way to invalidate it. The
particular bills being passed now are being passed only because the more
generic one passed by the Fla. legislature was tossed out as
unconstitutional. These right wing evangelicals don't really care about
the law, they are just using it to manipulate their case. They think
that they know all the answers, know how to live (and die) and will do
what they can to force their view on the rest of us.

David

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