re: #818 Throbert McGee

While I admit, in hindsight, that “dead as a boot” is a fair description of Terry Schiavo’s brain state, I opposed Charles on this at the time because I thought there might be a chance that Terry could’ve recovered from her unconsciousness to live out her life as a profoundly retarded but awake and conscious adult, and I was concerned about the possibility of bias against the “worthiness” of this possible outcome.

Based on what, for God’s sake? Wishful thinking? The MRIs were there and they showed a great, big, empty fluid filled cavity where her forebrain should be! Prayer is wonderful, and I suppose it is occasionally answered, but if you truly believe that God listens to every wish, you must believe, based on the number of innocent children who die of disease every year, that if God listens to every prayer, his overwhelmingly routine response is

“NO!”