10/30/2003
Schiavo case goes on
Jim DeFede of the Herald talks with a Roman Catholic priest and medical ethicists about Schiavo case. He says the rhetoric the governor is using is foolish. The only way you can describe it.
''We are in a death denying society,'' says Sandol Stoddard, who was one of the founders of the hospice movement in the United States. ``We are in the most death denying society that I have ever heard about or read about. We just don't want to accept the idea that we are going to die.''
Meanwhile, a brief challenging the law is filed. By giving Bush "limitless power to make the law, enforce the law and interpret the law, ("Terri's Law") violates every building block of divided government that is fundamental to American democracy and the Florida Constitution," the brief said. (NY Times version here.)
(ACLU Fla. has posted the brief in PDF format.)
In the Tallahassee Democrat, a professor who has studied definitions of death calls for a deeper understanding of death.
''We are in a death denying society,'' says Sandol Stoddard, who was one of the founders of the hospice movement in the United States. ``We are in the most death denying society that I have ever heard about or read about. We just don't want to accept the idea that we are going to die.''
Meanwhile, a brief challenging the law is filed. By giving Bush "limitless power to make the law, enforce the law and interpret the law, ("Terri's Law") violates every building block of divided government that is fundamental to American democracy and the Florida Constitution," the brief said. (NY Times version here.)
(ACLU Fla. has posted the brief in PDF format.)
In the Tallahassee Democrat, a professor who has studied definitions of death calls for a deeper understanding of death.
