Not Dead Yet

I am reminded here by Concerned Women of America that March 31 is the anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo. I had forgotten how many years (3) since she died, so googled her name, and the site of the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation gave this link to this article by Nat Hentoff, Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo. I can hardly believe my senator choose that as an example of vote he wanted to have back: even though he "knew better" as constitutional law professor at the time, he voted on behalf of Schiavo anyway. So now Obama is haunted by his vote for Terri.  Hentoff's article then put me on to Not Dead Yet, the office of which is less than ten miles from my office. I know of two stories about dying relatives on both sides of my family in which other family members were talking near the dying about plans after the death. In both cases the dying opened their eyes and informed their families, I am not dead yet! How many citizens think "euthanasia" and end-of-life policies are things about which to be concerned? If not, they've forgotten Terri Schiavo, three years passing.

Comments

[Bobby Winters]

In Texas sometimes having an Oklahoma license plate is enough to get you pronunced brain dead.

[Stuart Koehl]

Bobby,

Are you by any chance referring to the Aggie who moved to Oklahoma and thereby raised the IQs of both states?

[Bobby Winters]

Stuart,
I heard that a different way...

[Stuart Koehl]

Or perhaps we're both thinking of the woman who had rats in her cellar, so she called the Aggie Exterminator Company, which sent a squad of six men right over. Charging down into the basement, they fought hard but eventually were victorious. As they withdrew, two of the Aggies had been killed, two had been wounded, and two came back with war brides.

[Clifford Simon]

To whom it may concern,

Don't worry. It is my understanding that the above two gentlemen are capable of taking themselves more seriously.

[Bobby Winters]

Actually, my link is to a story that is directly on the mark.