Regrets

I have so many recurring thoughts of the recent death of Terri Schiavo. Like many Floridians and so many Americans, it seems Terri's tragic circumstances touched me like no other "news" event has touched me. But what I keep coming back to over and over in my thoughts, even now weeks after she's gone, is that her death was SO unnecessary. Parents, siblings and family were PERFECTLY WILLING to take care of Terri in her disability. I guess I'd feel differently if I felt in my heart that being allowed to die of thirst was TERRI'S wish. I just couldn't bring myself to think that. I couldn't see in her sad, hollow eyes that she'd rather be dead and I can't think at the young age she was stricken, she would have had the forethought to think through a plan in the event of this happening to her. I'm not Catholic, but on this point, the Catholic church is correct to be unyielding. The other religions of the world would do well to value human life as the Catholic church does. Err on the side of LIFE. America is on a slippery-slope where human life is judged by the living. Our entrance and exit from this world should be determined ONLY by the One that made us.