Clairity's Place takes on MSM over Terry Schiavo's autopsy report

The MSM still doesn't get it. Clairity sets them straight. Again.

One of the most frustrating--and haunting--reactions I saw over and over again was that of the regular people. The Polls. The comments all over the stories. Sure, MSM shaped those stories, asked those loaded questions with the help of sham polls, but still, there it was. Many people truly believed dehydrating Terry Schiavo was an act of mercy. They thought that those that called it murder were religious nutcases. Roughly 70% of Americans support a so-called "right to die", according to some gallop poll taken at the time. No wonder the disability advocates came out in force. They know they're next.

Clarity begins the education by pointing out the obvious:

The mainstream media misses the point again, as do those who are now doubting their support of Schiavo's family in seeking to offer the handicapped woman palliative care. Those who are mentally retarded, brain-damaged, or otherwise physically, mentally or emotionally impaired deserve to continue to be treated in a dignified way as human beings. We don't have to do everything, but to refuse even sips of water to a living person is unconscionable. Schiavo, not surprisingly, died of dehydration before starvation. How would that be a surprise, when no one was allowed to so much as wet her lips?

Somehow, reasonable society has equated dignified with productive, i.e. healthy enough to do stuff. Work and play. Get the hair done at Dorry's. Catch the wing special at Julio's. If one can't enjoy the proper things in life, this mindset appears to dictate, then one is better off dead.

It's truly frightening how utilitarian conventional thinking on life in the real world has become.

She continues the instruction. This time, she diagnosis exactly the worldview that allows such utilitarian ideas to flow unrestricted, and even commended:

In our society, we are moving further and further away in our society from respecting life as life, as something which we did not ordain or create. We believe ourselves to be masters of ourselves--"it's my body"--and we no longer refer to a Creator as providing the answer to the wondrous life we have been given so unexpectedly or to the mysterious ailments we endure across the spectrum of the human lifespan.

Society so behaving has divorced itself from God. God, however, is Love, Life and Truth. He is the very essense each and every person seeks with a desire that can only be satisfied in him. There is simply no other way to achieve any sense of meaning in life apart from him. Thus, society dooms itself to a parade of transient meanings that will never truly fulfill the longings of any person for long. The reality of sin ensures that each person will become more and more isolated from others and God. This produces much of what we see behind the "my life, my choice" viewpoint that plagues society today. In isolation from God, it's too easy to ease one's conscience by denying he's even in the picture. Thus, one is left alone. From that vantage point, it's child's play to conclude that life should proceed according to what one wants. If one is the arbiter of meaning, anyways, then why can't one decide when one's life no longer has any? Why, then, should one bother to live if any meaning no longer becomes possible to attain? The divorce that reaped a whirlwind of sin eventually brings the ruin that is the disposable life. The horror of the Schiavo case is, of course, that another human being made that call for someone else, and the Courts supported that decision on the basis of hearsay.

Now that the line has been crossed--where one person make's anothers decision about life and death for him, what happens next? The disabled are wise to worry. The rest of us should share that wisdom.

Clarity offers some final counsel for the MSM, and those that sympathize with them:

I've been told that people who supported Schiavo's feeding and hydration are "afraid of dying." That's ridiculous. What we're afraid of is living in a world where being human means nothing if you can't be a productive, uncomplaining member of society.

Someone say Amen!