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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22810)4/4/2005 4:22:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (3) of 81068
 
Re: In the circumstances of Schiavo's permanent disability, I can accept that there may be some kind of argument in favour of "execution" if there was no-one to look after her but in her case her parents were happy to do so and take responsibility.

But authorities must draw the line somewhere... lest we fall into "necro-fetishism". What would you say if Terri Schiavo's parents, having been granted custody of her, announced that they've hired a taxidermist to stuff her so that, after Terri's death, they could still keep her sitting in the living room? (Actually, such a grotesque idea crossed my mind as I watched all the hoopla about Pope John Paul II's death throes... I said to myself, they're gonna stuff him, then fit him with wires and springs and electronics to twist his head from side to side... lift his right arm up and down... plug a tape-recorder in his back and... Bob's your uncle! John Paul II will remain with us for ever and ever --as the last, immortal Pope!)

Gus
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