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February 15, 2005

Why Euthanasia is wrong

I'm in the airport waiting to board my plane, and I was surfing around the web - I found this article

Brain Damaged Woman Talks after 20 Years

Sarah Scantlin was an 18-year-old college freshman on Sept. 22, 1984, when she was hit by a drunk driver as she walked to her car after celebrating with friends at a teen club. That week, she had been hired at an upscale clothing store and won a spot on the drill team at Hutchinson Community College.

After two decades of silence, she began talking last month. Doctors are not sure why. On Saturday, Scantlin's parents hosted an open house at her nursing home to introduce her to friends, family members and reporters.
A week ago, her parents got a call from Jennifer Trammell, a licensed nurse at the Golden Plains Health Care Center. She asked Betsy Scantlin if she was sitting down, told her someone wanted to talk to her and switched the phone to speaker mode:
"Hi, Mom."

The human body is a remarkable thing. This woman, considered horribly brain damaged can speak again - go read the entire article.

It should make the husband of the Florida woman, Terri Schiavo, who is in the same kind of vegetative state as Sarah was, reconsider his desire to have his wife killed by denying her food.

At the very least, those judges who deem Terri's life not worthy of living should fly to Kansas and ask Sarah what she thinks of their ideas.

UPDATE: Seems I'm not the only blogger who sees the similarities between Sarah's and Terri's stories. See LaShawn Barber's post.

In fact, all these bloggers are blogging to help save Terri's life:

And, say a prayer for Terri. Killing her by starvation is absolutely evil.

Posted by Beth at February 15, 2005 07:28 AM