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[avevale_intelligencer]

Passions are running high over the Terri Schiavo case, so I'm not going to comment directly on that. Please don't try and explain it to me: I've read quite enough. I am confident that by the time my body gives out nobody is going to give a flying frod whether I live or die, so it isn't going to be an issue in my case. Just...once you have established that there are circumstances in which a medical practitioner can legally take positive action to end a person's life, you've cracked open a door that can all too easily be pushed back against the wall, and if you trust the leaders of our countries not to take advantage of a handy way of getting rid of people, I don't. The only line that can't be "redefined" is the one on zero.

And if, five minutes after I do snuff it, someone comes up with a procedure which had I been kept alive a little longer could have saved me, I hope they'll have the decency to keep quiet about it till I'm safely in the landfill.