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March 20, 2005

Comatose or not comatose

A lot of people have parents like mine. That is to say that my mother will never be able to not see me as her little boy. And thatÕs alright -- it is a parent's porogative to hold on to that mental image of you as a child. I am sure they needed that mental picture of you as an angel to get through the day, but mostly not to kill you when they found you coloring the pictures in the dictionary (thanks mom), I suppose the evolutionary process that made human parents this way is also the process that keeps them from eating their young. The process is so good in fact that when working properly there is really nothing that would make a mother kill her little baby.

I am now a man of 30 plus and I know my mom couldnÕt do it --pull the plug that is. I would rather my wife (when I get one). Make the call since she will know me as an adult and have a fuller view of me and my adult life. Hell, I would rather my best friend make the call. He would probably throw me a party for the plug pulling. I say all this to say a little about Terry Lee Schiavo. I feel she is stuck between the two opposing views of who she is. Her parents (like mine I may add) will never be able to not see the child inside the adult. And the husband will never know the grief of standing by and watching someone kill his little girl.

It's strange -- the kinds of stories the news media latches onto. These types of decisions Ð- the life or death, plug-pulling kind --are decided everyday. Why is it that this case in now sitting in front of congress?

Posted by Kwaku at March 20, 2005 4:04 AM

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