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No peace in starvation

“TERRI SCHIAVO must be allowed to die in peace” - this was your benediction to Terri Schiavo in your editorial (March 26) on her starvation to death while the world commemorated the passion and death of Christ.

Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 - 01:00

Your “faith” condemns the dying to the “consoling” fate of starvation on their final days on Earth: “to die in peace”! Oh, that our courts could observe the law of God.

Jerry O’Mahony

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