I LOVINGLY ALLOWED MY PARENTS TO GO

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: March 22, 2005 | Copyright information

I AM APPALLED and dismayed at the level of legislative interference in what is essentially a personal decision: the right to die.

Terri Schiavo has had 15 years of life support by artificial means. Keeping her on a feeding tube has nothing to do with right to life. It is prolonged existence by artificial means. Many churches recognize that when natural death would ordinarily take place, keeping someone on a machine is not required, nor is it necessarily ethical. I faced this decision with both of my parents. I was clear in the knowledge that they didn't want to be ...

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