[extropy-chat] Thoughts on Schiavo

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

I did not know that the parents had volunteered to front all financial
expenses to keep Terri on life support.
This being the case, I now believe removing Terri from life support
constitutes an extremely bad precedent for life extension, cryonics
and experimental therapies, not to mention civil rights in your
country.
If one is not allowed to spend her or his own money on medical
procedures that the majority of the medical establishment condemns, I
can easily imagine a judge ordering to bury all Alcor and CI patients,
and I can easily imagine a judge preventing people to pay their own
money for experimental rejuvenation therapies.
I also did not know that until now life support costs were paid with
the compensation awarded to Terri by the court, and that the money
remaining is enough to provide a significant financial benefit to
someone if Terri dies.
G.