Complex workings in deciding Schiavo case

WHEN writing on how to treat people with chronic illnesses (Opinion, March 30), Rónán Mullen seems to be searching for a simplicity that is not there.

Complex workings in deciding Schiavo case

He sees it as simply a case of good and evil as opposed to a complex weighing-up of the sometimes contradictory interests of a human being, and backs up his judgment with a clairvoyance beyond most of us.

For example, his assertion that “the death of love in a husband” is a factor in Terri Schiavo’s case is flabbergasting. How can he make a judgment on what was going on in the heart of a man he has never met?

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