Terri Schiavo: Please explain something to me...

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

I think it is interesting when people comment on whether she feels pain, etc. as if the non-recognition of the reality of the starving somehow justifies it.

I think it's rather interesting that the politicians and the fundies comment on her starving to death, wasting away, and dying a painful death when she won't feel any pain. It's not about trying to justify anything, it's about respecting her wishes, which the courts have said were not to be kept alive.

Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

How is it then that we cannot execute mentally ill murderers because it is considered "cruel and unusual" to execute a person who does not know that they are being executed?

Because Mrs. Schiavo wasn't mentally ill when she made it clear that she didn't want to continue living under such circumstances.