An excellent secular summary of the issues and opinions that have come from the Schiavo drama. What's missing here, however, is any discussion of the spiritual dimension of life and death. That discussion is immensely important and becomes a foundational part of anyone's decisions in matters of life and death.
The best efforts of state/government/courts are only process focused to provide rules for managing life and death among the competing views and opinions. The real questions about life and death are spiritual. Crucial questions about immortality reside in what a person believes to be true... not what the law of man says, but what the Law of God is.
The law of man can never be crafted in a way that that satisfies all spiritual beliefs.
For me and other committed Christians and Jews:
'My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, ' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts' (Isaiah 55:8,9 New International Version of the Bible).
The Scriptures talk about life and death not so much in the physical sense but in matters of the spiritual and faith.
"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."
"The wages of sin is death."
"The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death." (NIV)
"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." (NIV)
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, [ Or his only begotten Son] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
"Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men." (NIV)
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