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re: Free will
Tom Brosz — (archived)

I think the issue ended up for me being whether the "wishes" of a person who is dead, dead, dead should override the lives of the living.

The phrase "I wouldn't want to live like that" is inseparable from the concept of a person who is aware of their own condition, even on a primal level. Every aspect of the idea of the right to own one's own body implies the existence of a mind, or at least an awareness. Otherwise, it becomes a farce. How long should your wishes be law after you are dead? Five years? Fifteen? A hundred?

Now the lives of a family have been damaged beyond repair. And is Terri "better off?" How? By what measurement or standard?

In what way is her quality of life different now than it was two months ago? By what measurement or standard?

I don't understand Michael's motivations and never did. Concern for Terri? She was DEAD. I'm rapidly coming to think his primary motivation was hostility to Terri's family.

The doctor and lawyer who came in on Michael's side have been heard from before, and they will be heard from again. This is their chosen career.

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