This Schaivo Case is proving to me once again how selfish Christians tend to be during any emergency.  When their own safety is in jeopardy they will always fall on their knees and pray for their own salvation so they will be allowed to enter the gates of heaven. I’ve seen this a number of times during the emergency disasters I have witnessed as a member of the Red Cross.  I have seen dead bodies pulled from the ocean and the next of kin crying how this could happen to them.  Not the dead person but to them personally.  I have seen mothers fall prone when a child is in danger and I have wondered why they didn’t try to help the child first before calling to God to do it for them.

I have seen new widows fall apart when they realize they must now live alone.  I have seen in-laws more worried about how their new family member appears to the neighbors and the actions go on and on.

The mother and father of Terry Schaivo hit a new low in selfishness these last years to prove to me my evaluation of seeing them more concerned with the media attention rather than the saving of their daughter.  Of course they want their daughter to be alive; but obviously not at the cost of taking care of her themselves.  There was no reason they couldn’t have brought her home, called in around the clock nurses to feed, wash and keep her alive and they would have gotten their wish.  I’m hearing that Terri could have been saved by therapy sessions…….well why didn’t they?  Instead they placed her in a Hospice facility where Medicare and private donations helped take care of her.  Hospice is set up for terminal patients only and should have refused to accept her knowing damn well she was not terminal.  Again this was a selfish use of tax payers Medicare hand outs the family members.

I had no idea that the family was Roman Catholic until the Pope stepped up and demanded that she be kept alive.  Did his declaration have a check made out to the survival of Terri or is he only the voice of God?   

Now that I know they are Roman Catholics, where in the hell was the church on this issue?  Why didn’t they pitch in to help care for Terri in a private Catholic home some where?  Why allow her to be dragged through the mud of the media where the family had their 15 minutes (15 years in this case) of fame? 

No I’m seeing a pro-life message behind this whole mess. 

The State of Oregon has a legal “Assisted Suicide” law that protects the terminal patients from having to live their lives in agony and pain and a quick prescription can save them and their family the prolonged death that the Christians seem to demand.  Attorney General Ashcroft declared this illegal on the day he resigned from office.  He then ran for cover.  What a big brave Christian he showed himself to be!

Even bringing in the Congress into this mess is excessively selfish and the Congress acting so quickly also acted in a selfish manner knowing damned well they were running for reelection and needed the pro-life voters next year. 

I can only hope the American people will see through this dreadful case brought about by selfish parents who refused to help their daughter and insisted on bringing in the media and the Federal government.

I think it is time to bring back the Separation of Church and State and keep the government out of the private religious lives of all Americans.  It is time the government let us live and die as we wish and get out of our personal and private choices. 

I smell a pro-life movement behind this whole rotten mess.  Why am I not surprised?