It would have been nice if these guys had been in charge of Terri Schiavo's care

It's rather strange for Conservative Christians to rail at doctor's for violating their oath to do no harm when it comes to euthanasia and then demand that they kill people for Caesar. But then, there's something bizarre about the insistence on "qualified medical personnel" seeing to it that a person dies. What? Are they afraid they'll use an unsterile needle on a man who is going to be dead in 30 seconds? We want to kill people, but we don't want to face the fact that we are killing people. Older, coarser and earthier cultures did this in the town square with an axe and a lot of spurting blood. We prefer our violence privatized and sanitized, from the abortion clinic to Schiavo's hospice to the gallows. It's an aesthetic choice that reveals a schizophrenic conscience about our culture of death.