RIGHT TO DIE - I'll say it again!

I don't want to stifle debate on the issue (like I really could) but I'll say it again, "In a civilized society, religious argument aside, no one has the right to die!" That is, no one has the right to die capriciously, selfishly, gratuitously, vindictively, wantonly, or wastefully.

Now, for you leftist-libs, this is one of those issues where you have to take off your narcissistic, college-educated hats and put on a thinking caps! Yes, Brittany, there are areas of life where you need to think of others and not yourself!

The members of a civil society have an unwritten contract with their neighbors and descendents to consider the corporate good as premminent to the individual good. That's why a civil society is willing to go to war when forced to! Often this philosophy of existence requires sacrifice on the part of some; it always requires commitment on the part of the majority. I believe our founding fathers (forgive me NAGs) understood this and wanted us to understand it as well.

Wall Street Journal editors are right in their Opinion Journal piece today when they say ...

The name "Terri" has been everywhere this week. .... Whatever one's views ... Americans are united in pondering her fate. It is, then, the right moment to ask what this extraordinary national scrutiny of one human life is all about.

The answer is that it is not about "one human life" but all human life! To simply segue into the issue of a "right to die" and ignore that it is packaged with the greater issue of society's greater good is wrong-headed. In other words, a civil society wants to know, "How far will the tentacles of this monster reach and how much damage will meted out to my neighbors and future generations if the culture of death wins a victory here?"

The nacissitic mindset will arouse a spontaneous and knee-jerk reaction: "What's the matter with you? Have you no compassion? Do you want people to be vegetables and suffer for years with no 'quality of life'?"

Of course the answer is no. But on the other hand I don't want to burden my neighbors or future generations with a society which sees no sanctity in human life ... Germany, along with others, tried that for three decades with horrendous consequences. My gut wrenches at the thought of our great nation bequeathing that value of life to her descendents.