May 23, 3:40 p.m.: On life and death and Terri Schiavo

The questions regarding the Schiavo case are vexing, to say the least.

By: Hank Kalet
   The always interesting Joan Didion offers a different take on the Terri Schiavo case than what we were subjected to in the mainstream media and on cable news. (Here is my take from the end of March.)
   Didion takes what I believe is the only right approach on this, to attempt to look at it from Ms. Schiavo’s perspective — raising the difficult question of how you decide what makes life worth living and who gets to decide when you can’t.
   Back in March, I related my own ambivalence on these issues, an ambivalence built on my own sense of life’s sanctity. I have attempted to ask myself what I would want done if I were in Terri Schiavo’s situation and I honestly cannot answer. I would think I’d wish to leave that decision to my wife, but I can’t honestly say what I would want. And I can’t say that what I might express now might not change over time — which renders Ms. Schiavo’s own alleged direction on this suspect.