To the editor:
Would that one were a horse instead of a human being! Especially in view of the current cultural climate in the courts.

Consider the case of Floridian ìTerriî Schiavo disabled by a stroke. If she were a horse, or any other animal, the courts of that state and the laws of the land would deem it a crime for anyone to withhold sustenance and shelter, hydration and protection. And the courts would vigorously enforce, under pain of punishment, the legal mandate.

Consider, too, the cruel and unusual and repeated emotional punishment wreaked upon loving parents and friends exposed to serial declarations granting judicial permission for doctors to ìpull the plug and then, in repeated see-saw, yo-yo fashion, to pull back the permission. that is not unlike the cruelty of a cat that physically exhausts a mouse through playful torment before it kills and eats it.

The real issue in this case has never been a question of the so-called and imagined ìright-to-die,î

The question that needs to be answered is whether God or man shall govern the length of life. As with all of us, Schiavo is destined to die ñ in Godís good time.

Judges and courts appear to like the heady power to play God but death is not a matter to be settled by them ñ it is a matter of fact.
The courts and judges like to play God but they need to remember that they occupy a subordinate place in the grand scheme of life.

Michas Ohnstad
North Branch

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