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Sir, — The Terri Schiavo case highlights how a person of diminished capacity is helpless in the face of the powers that be. Her pitiable situation has shown that in these material times outrage can be marketed; and misery can be a field day for political opportunism and judicial activism. Starving her is judicial homicide and a fate worse than that reserved for prisoners on the death row.
Sugeeta Roy Choudhury,
Sir, — On the issue of right to life and right to death, Mahatma Gandhi said: "The question may legitimately be put to me, would I apply to human beings the principles I have enunciated in connection with the calf [the killing of which Gandhi allowed in Sabarmati ashram]? Would I like them to be applied in my own case? My reply is yes. If I am unable to render any aid and recovery is out of question and the patient is lying unconscious in the throes of agony, then I would not see any himsa [violence] in putting an end to his suffering by death." It is time to support the decision of Terri's husband and the court to put an end to her agony.
Sathia Krishnamoorthy,
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