Can A Man Starve His Wife To Death?

Is it right to deprive a person of food and water just because they can't talk and can't swallow? That is the real question in the Terri Shiavo case.

See: http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/talk.pdf

Is it good to feed someone who can't feed themselves? If it is good to preserve life, help the helpless, save the dying to not help Terri would be a sin. Taking a brain dead person off a life support is one thing but withholding food from a person who would otherwise life is murder. See http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0305/schiavo_spero.php3

If a baby was born and the parents said, "I am this child's legal guardian. The child can't talk, can't walk, can't feed it's self. It has a terrible quality of life. As it's parent I know it wouldn't want to live this way. In fact it cries all the time. Therefore I am going to withhold food and water from my baby so it can die with ease and dignity." And then the parent starved the child to death. What would we do? We would arrest them for neglect at least and murder at most.

When we passed laws to make neglect of babies illegal, congressmen were not then saying, "but this is a private family matter that the state should not be getting involved with." So why do we say that about poor Terri? Because too many today do not value human life created in God's image.

So what is Terri does have the mind of a child? So what if she can't speak? So what if she has to be helped to be feed? Does that make her non-human? Does that give us the right to starve her to death?

If starving a baby is wrong so is starving Terri Schiavo.

Or what about my wife's cousin, Eli. He was born with a multiple handicaps-caps. He has never been able to walk, talk, or do anything but smile and make noises. Yet, anyone who would spend some time with him would see he cares, he feels, and he loves. He can't feed himself, dress himself, or use the restroom on his own. Should my wife's uncle just starve him to death because he thinks maybe Eli wouldn't want to live that way. NO! It would be neglect and murder.

James 4:17 says, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."

Terri is conscious (or was before they took her food & water away). Go here and see that she is not brain dead. http://www.blogsforterri.com/video/ConversationWithTerri.wmv She was awake. She would smile for loved ones. She may improve with therapy which her husband has denied her for years. One nurse even testified that she could swallow food and water if spoon fed but that her husband insists on a feeding tube.

Some say it's a matter of "choice." Ahh the same old stuff we here in the abortion debate. For those who think her husband has the "right to choose" I encourage you to read http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43398

Michael Schiavo says that if his wife, Terri could talk she would say "I want my feeding tube removed."

But considering that Michael has been cheating on Terri for years now, has had multiple children out of wedlock with his live-in lover and been living off the money won in a malpractice law suit that was supposed to be used to pay for Terri's rehabilitation, my guess is if she could talk right now she would say, "I want a divorce!"

For more information on her case go here: http://www.blogsforterri.com/