What about that "in sickness and in health" clause?

Anyhow, I'd be curious to know how many people who side with Mr. Schiavo also oppose the death penalty. Just wonderin.

In sickness and in health has absolutely nothing to do with keeping a person alive artificially just because it can happen. In sickness and in health means that when a loved one is sick, you see them through it. When they are dying you care for them until their time comes to go. It also means that if they have expressed an opinion about not wanting to be kept alive artificially you respect that rather than turning them into a museum piece.

I oppose the death penalty for one reason only - the many people who have been executed and then discovered to have been innocent. However, I do not see the connection. The question seems to suggest that allowing a dying person to die is somehow the same as executing a murderer or swatting a fly. These are totally different things. The nearest "connected" things I can think of are Euthanasia (which this is NOT) and Abortion. On both subjects I have loose ends though in principal I'm against them both. (The loose ends are that I can always think of exceptions but the exceptions should not be the rule).

Frank L.