Thursday, March 31, 2005

Theresa Schiavo: "Free At Last"

Now that Theresa Schiavo has died, the country can begin to better examine legal remedies creating more options for persons dealing with end of life decisions and hopefully coming away with a better educated public about the need for living wills and durable power of attorney directives. Jesse Jackson stressed the need for government to help more people to have long term health care for all persons which is what allowed Teresa to linger this long, although I feel the Schindler family's desire to keep their daughter alive in her condition was wrong as it was not their decision to make. I agree with Jackson that everyone should have the right to have the option to continuuing care which most people do not.

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