Death, Honesty and Respect

The case Terri Schiavo has shown again that people seems to need a kind of "treatment last will". Regardless of the typical American way of trampling all over ones rights (and I do hope the American public will remember at the next election which senators, including Senator nr.1 their own President, tried to bend the American Constitution and their judges and that they never will be elected again) one seems to need a clear description how to be treated when lying in a hospital without any possibility to recover. And I do hope this case will be the startingpoint for a real discussion about respect and the last will of people....or just respect for the difficult situation other people/countries might be in....Americans have a problem with spelling that word: R-E-S-P-E-C-T !!!!!!!

Yesterday I filled out such a will, a Norwegian one, so my kids will know what I want when that day should come, God forbid......it might not be juridical valid, but there's where the word RESPECT comes in....

I still wonder why those supporters in front of that hospice tried to "save Terri"? Her soul was gone to the Lord for 15 years ago, just the plant-like body was left....sounds harsh, but that's what vegetative state means...in car-terms: the motor is running but the gearbox is gone.........and worse: even the so-called educated people at the Senate and the House didn't realise that they were trying to support the rights of a plant.....

I'm very happy that the Dutch realise that respect is an essential part of life, hence their legislation in this difficult field...

The Pope: I do hope the good Lord will take him to His Yard soon. He's done a great job here on earth and I must say: Lord, why did You give him so much pain and sorrow after all he succeeded with? He was a true representative for You...so, please spare him this suffering...and give us one back as good and diplomatic as he was....but a bit more liberal....more one of us, more a modern Leader....we all need that..