Terri Shiavo has Died
March 31, 2005
A sad day has just begun in the United States. The courts successfully killed a human being based upon their judgement that that life was not valuable to society.
This makes a severly harmful precedent in our government institutions which must be fixed immediately.
Peggy Noonan recently stated that if Schiavo were to die, it could be disasterous for Republicans in the polls. I believe that unless Congress, the President, the Florida Legislature and Governor and Legislatures and Governors in every state take a strong stand to balance powers by reducing the current influence of the courts, there will be political consequences.
Despite the fact that polls seem to indicate most Americans supported the removal of Terri’s souce of food, when the facts are presented, people know that this was a horrible act of cruelty.
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I apologize for this lengthy comment, but I wanted to promulgate this parallel to the world:
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
By Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
Since then ’tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.