Wednesday, March 30, 2005
What can we learn from Terri?
There has been a tremendous amount of 'reporting' done regarding her situation. What seems to be emerging is that the U.S. is populated by a large number of people who champion the ending of a human life when that life becomes inconvenient for someone else. The activity of the judiciary has been shameful. The acceptance of evidence that she had said that she wouldn't want to be kept on life support was little better than heresay. The precident, however, has now been set. 'Ethicists' have defined what constitutes 'personhood', and it has also been determined by these same 'ethicists' that she is not in possession of "personhood". How sad for humanity. And how scary if you are a Gen-Xer.
One thing to remember is that the timing of her 'death' will be perfect for her. Nobody 'dies' before their time. No one ever has. When her physical form is no longer able to continue, or possibly before that occurs, her Soul will break the connection of "the silver cord", referenced in The Bible, and the spiritual aspect of her nature will be free of its physical form. She may or may not be consciously aware when this separation happens. At the spiritual level she has benefitted from the non-communicative state she has been in for 15 years. "Found a way to use it for her spiritual advantage", is probably the best way to say it.
One thing to remember is that the timing of her 'death' will be perfect for her. Nobody 'dies' before their time. No one ever has. When her physical form is no longer able to continue, or possibly before that occurs, her Soul will break the connection of "the silver cord", referenced in The Bible, and the spiritual aspect of her nature will be free of its physical form. She may or may not be consciously aware when this separation happens. At the spiritual level she has benefitted from the non-communicative state she has been in for 15 years. "Found a way to use it for her spiritual advantage", is probably the best way to say it.
