they will live forever, so to say, and
they don't consider that today might
be the last day of their life. Most of
us don't live with a sense of the song
title, "Live Like You Were Dying,"
because we can't take the serious
nature of such a thought, or because
we just don't like the "down", sort
of melancholy type of mindset which
that type of thinking brings on. Perhaps you can add to the ideas here?
The article in this mornings BBC says
a lawyer advised their client to cut off
life support and the courts have upheld
the decision as legal, "Germany's Justice Minister,
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger,
said the Karlsruhe federal court
ruling brought clarity to cases
involving terminally ill patients."
Do you think, first, that the world is
getting older? In other words people
are living longer? Second, do you
think that we have allowed for this,
in other words we've thought ahead
to what it means for all sorts of support
systems, that people will live longer?
You will remember a famous case in
America where a doctor was accused
of helping patients to end their lives
early? Do you think it's possible that
this case will impact upon that one?
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