SO MANY STEPS TO DEATH. “I’m in favour of continuing to feed Terri because the law seems to have used a simple, cold balance-of-probabilities analysis to determine her presumptive wishes. There’s no written living will; the only evidence we have is oral, and it comes from one source. The chance that she would regard her feeding tube as an instrument of rape is being treated with more respect than it deserves, since the decision to withdraw her food and water is irreversible. I think the standard’s got to be much higher than that before you starve somebody to death. And while I’m not qualified to comment on the possibility raised recently that her husband is engaged in destroying evidence of spousal abuse, that’s a possibility in principle with all these cases–which is one good reason death shouldn’t be treated as having claims equal to those of life.” (Via Colby Cosh, who wrote the above.)

Contacts who can help Terri.

Prov 24:11-12:
“Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not requite man according to his work?”

(contacts link and Biblical citation via the Old Oligarch.)