Reply #29: You're wrong.

[cornermouse]

On your first rebuttal, you say there is a fair bit of study? Typically around here, a reference address/location for a study is desirable for obvious reasons. Where is it?

Typically the medical establishmennt is where you would look for the DNR. Are you saying that doctors, nurses, and medical ethicists are in the business of offing their disabled patients?

Your second point? Life without regard to costs? I'm not just talking about financial costs although they can be astronomical. If there is any remnant of consciousness or memory that remembers the ability to move, to think, to be close...how awful to be trapped in a body that no longer responds, to know that you have lost the things (people, freedom, life in general) that really mattered to you. That's torture. Wanting to avoid that has nothing to do with discrimination or prejudice.

At any rate, in Terri Schiavo's case (vegetative, remember?) it is not a matter of preserving life. It is a matter of prolonging death. It is a matter of warehousing human beings. It is cruel.