Re: compassion

Well, I don't know. Of course I think we should try to be compassionate about this situation as well. I think it's sad. I feel sorry for her husband. I feel sorry for her parents. I can imagine what it must be like to see someone go from being a healthy young woman to just a living body.. I feel in this situation it would be more compassionate to let go than to try to hang on. What if her spirit has been in pain all these years? ..wanting to reunite with god, but unable to do so because her vessel is being artifically kept alive? How do we know that isn't the way it works for people in comas?

And besides that I think it's more compassionate for the husband. He counts. He's a living soul, right? The parents I believe have become demented, but I still feel sorry for them.

I think one of the saddest things is that someone thinks it's better to allow her body to starve than to euthanize it more succinctly. It's like ethical principle overriding reality. I mean the doctors say she doesn't feel anything at all, and I trust that, but we might as well do it quickly to be sure.