Thursday, March 31, 2005
The Pope and the Tube
Say It Ain't So, 'cause I don't think the American populace, let alone The Whole Wide World (a small plug for an early Renee Zellweger film), can handle another grand-scale, Schiavo-like debacle with the Pope playing the lead.
From a fresh-off-the-wires Reuters story, which is here, at least for now:
PARIS (Reuters) - Pope John Paul, now being fed through a nasal tube because of his throat problems, effectively wrote his own "living will" last year in a speech declaring some life-extending treatments a moral duty for Roman Catholics.
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This indicates he would want to be kept alive by artificial means even if he fell into a coma or a persistent vegetative state, such as the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in the United States whose feeding tubes have been removed after 15 years.
And speaking of Schiavo, here blog can be found here.
From a fresh-off-the-wires Reuters story, which is here, at least for now:
PARIS (Reuters) - Pope John Paul, now being fed through a nasal tube because of his throat problems, effectively wrote his own "living will" last year in a speech declaring some life-extending treatments a moral duty for Roman Catholics.
(skip)
This indicates he would want to be kept alive by artificial means even if he fell into a coma or a persistent vegetative state, such as the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in the United States whose feeding tubes have been removed after 15 years.
And speaking of Schiavo, here blog can be found here.
posted by P, 3/31/2005 12:09:00 AM