[Vision2020] Terri Shivo

[J Ford]

Doug Wilson says:

"In my view, now that all legal and constitutional appeals have been 
exhausted ... the authorities in Florida will not in able to say, "Well, we 
did everything we could do, and now we just have to let her die." They have 
not yet done everything they can do. Governor Bush now has a moral 
responsibility to send the National Guard to the hospital and have Terri 
Schiavo's feeding tube reattached."

Did Jesus "let" Lazarus die?  No, he did not.  Lazarus' death served a 
greater purpose.  Even while being chided and repeatedly asked to come to 
Lazarus' "rescue" and save him from death, Jesus elected to allow the death 
to occur.  It was not His time to step in.  But He felt the death just as 
much as anyone else as the Bible points out in John 11:35-38 - "Jesus wept.  
Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!"  And some of them said  "Could 
not this Man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept this man from 
dying?"  Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb; it was a 
cave and a stone lay against it."  When the time came to go to Lazurus, 
Jesus did and brought Lazarus out - alive (the song "Four Days Late And 
Still On Time" comes to mind.)

I am sorry for the trials this woman and her family are having to go 
through.  But sometimes, a seemingly bad thing ends up happening in order 
for an over-all good to happen.

At this point, if a tube were put back into her, would the damage of 
"starvation" be irreversable?  Wouldn't her already damaged body reject any 
supportive actions and she would become even more "a vegtable" living on 
machines?  What would she be "living" for or about - just so her parents 
could have their daughter?  Why not allow her to go and remember her as a 
healthy, happy, active member of the family rather than someone they have to 
do everything for, including breathing and eating?

I would hope no one sees me as being heartless or cruel - I'm not.  I AM 
thinking of Teri and her family.  I just don't believe living on machines, 
smiling occasionally, gurgling noises, etc. is living.  Not when what awaits 
her in death is so much better.

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