What I really wanted to say!

This recent comment on an old post is too good to miss, so I'm bringing it forward. THANK YOU (!) Jacob for putting it even better than I did.

The Schiavo case is pretty troubling for me. Autumn and I have discussed it at length and come to several conclusions. There is no way the courts should have allowed the husband to take her off the tubes. There was just as little medical hope for her when she began to live in this way, the only thing that has changed is HIS level of hope, which is a sad way for the courts to make any life and death decisions. There is quite a big difference between allowing someone to slip away naturally, and giving them life sustaining food and care for years and then ACTIVELY denying those essentials based on your waning hope. He also had moved on with his life, started another family, essentially divorced himself from her. That should have been enough to make the courts see that he did not have her interests in mind, only wanted to ease his guilt. I feel bad for him, but I feel worse that the courts would make a decision based on this case. Her parents, not moving on with life, were willing to choose life, to choose hope, but the courts chose to up hold the husbands 'rights' based on a contract (marriage) that fails over 50% of the time, over a bond between parent and child! He didn't have to do anything, simple hand the care over to people that WANTED the burden. The courts got stuck on the question of quality of life and the husband's rights. Goodness! When in doubt of what is the right road, I say choose life! ---Jacob

Jacob & Autumn Witt