On Barbaro...

[MonkeyFunk]

Barbaro was "put down" today. Everybody, without exception, believes it was the right thing to do. Many of us were very sorry about it, but nobody doubted it was the merciful thing to do.

I've held a couple of dogs and more than a few cats in my lap as they were "put down". Each and every time, I thought it was a mercy.

But I've also held the hands of humans who were dying - suffering - crying. In pain. And I held those hands for days until "nature took it's course".

Yeah, I use a lot of quotes.

But why on God's great Earth should it be a mercy to euthanize a cat and a sin to do the same for a person?