<snip> There are other things I'd like to stipulate in the event that I become brain-dead. I agree to inform my parents -- upon whose common sense you may rely -- that a public battle over keeping me alive would bring unrelenting shame upon my children and my God. Please inform your parents the same and ask them to respect our belief that the passing of our bodies releases our spirit to return to God, where, with hope, he will remember us.
Also, ask my son and daughters to keep CNN and the rest of the exploitative media out of my hospital room. I'd rather not have pictures of me broadcast around the world half-naked and hovering between life and death. That would be cruel and unnecessarily distressing to my family and friends.
Should Congress threaten to get involved --if the hulking figure of Dennis Hastert ever darkens my doorway -- please call an immediate news conference. Ask Congress why, if they are so pro-life, haven't they pulled the 130,000 American men and women out of Iraq and stopped killing people there? Ask them why they've allowed the CIA to outsource torture so that living human beings are suffering on their watch. Ask them, too, if there isn't a glaring contradiction between being pro-life and supporting the sale of .50-caliber rifles. Make the point that the surging violence in this country is surely not befitting a Judeo-Christian nation and ask why they aren't spending their time reducing real violence instead of staging special sessions.
Most of all, ask them why their vehement pro-marriage stance hasn't stopped them from destroying the simple but sacred bond between Terri and Michael Schiavo, husband and wife. If a husband can't speak for his wife, and vice versa, when facing life-and-death issues, then the cockeyed conservatism of an ignorant few has gutted the very meaning of marriage. <snip>
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