Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!207!Ann.Parsons From: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Euthanasia Message-ID: <15646@handicap.news> Date: 14 May 91 20:15:20 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/207 - The Recovery Room B, Rochester NY Lines: 49 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 15646 Hi Adrienne, AP>>Well, I think that you are right that we have the right to AP>>disagree. When you AP>>ask me if I would consider your wishes and pull the plug if you AP>>had asked me AP>>to do so, I can only say that I hope that I would do as Our Lord AP>>wills. Adding AB> So how you gonna know what your Lord wills? Pray, read the Scriptures, know as much as I can about medical technology. Then, add a little love and common sense. AP>>here that I am only human and perhaps not strong enough to carry AP>>our Lord's AP>>wishes to fruition. I pray that He may not test me so. Amen, and amen. As a Theist, that's 'bout all I can say. One never knows what he/she is going to do when push comes to shove. One would hope to do the thing which is right, truly right in God's eyes, not the world's. You see, Adrienne, we have lost the ability to look for heroes. If you read Science Fiction, there is a great article by Stanley Schmidt, its editor about this subject. Oh, no, I don't mean Euthanasia, but the shoe fits, I think. He talks about the fact that we have slowed down the space project because we think that it is unsafe. He goes on to ask who ever thought it was supposed to be safe when you tried something new. I guess what I am saying is that some people who are in favor of Euthanasia are those who can not or will not stay the course. They prefer the easy way out, the short cuts in life, the "me" syndrone. "I don't want to suffer so I am going to leave." It would be nice to say that about many kinds of things. Isn't it interesting that we deludge our kids with violence on tv and then talk, talk, talk peace? What are we really saying? I do not have answers. I do not know why some must suffer. I only know that I do not know and I wouldn't presume to limit, confine, misinterpret, or profane God and His gift of life. Ann P. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!260!207!Ann.Parsons Internet: Ann.Parsons@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org