The Terri Schiavo case down here continues to get a good deal of national press. (She is a severely brain-damaged woman at Woodside Hospital in Florida whose life hangs in the balance because her former husband is fighting to take her off artificial life support. The contention is that it wasn’t her wish to be kept alive using artificial means.) Anti-euthanasia advocates are up in arms about this case, and euthanasia in general… I called into a rather heated local radio show in Ocala a few days back and said our society has to realize euthanasia, especially with the elderly, actually starts when families, and communities, start pushing the elderly farther and farther out — in retirment communities, then assisted living complexes, then nursing homes… How they are often “pushed out,” I said, is by younger generations no longer esteeming them, or listening to them, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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