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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Dan B. who wrote (226164)3/25/2005 2:37:36 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575698
 
Re: "It would seem to be cruel and unusual punishment were she not in a vegetative state."

I cannot take the word of these guys, as the courts have.

With a human, even with a liquified cortex, there is simply no way to know what she may be cognizant of.

Yes, there is. Scientists believe that functions such as feeling starvation are contained within the celebral cortex. If she has no celebral cortex, then she will feel nothing. I doubt that scientists are wrong on this issue.

Does "spirit" mean anything to us? Or must we believe there is nothing "there" in her? We cannot yet make life from nothing and there may exist "spirit" which lives on beyond death, without which there perhaps can be no life as we know it.

If, in fact, there is a spirit within her or any of us, it is not corporeal and will feel nothing of the starvation.

To allow this sort of slow death is purely the result of a failure to separate church and state, Imho. Christian Science wins in the courts in this case, or so it plainly seems.

It is not Christian Science at all. Christian Scientists believe the mind is capable of healing one's body. Therefore they do not believe that medicine is needed to cure an illness........the mind can do it all on its own through prayer and communing with God.

T. Schiavo has no mind with which to pray.

ted
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