God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia:
1. Personhood – The argument is simple: someone in an irreversible coma is no longer a person but only a biological organism. The distinction is often made between a person’s biological life, or physical existence, and one’s biographical life, or the aspects of one’s life that make it meaningful. One’s biographical life is the sum total of one's goals, desires, dreams, plans, accomplishments and relationships. Medical science has made it possible to retain one’s biological life after having lost one’s biographical life. Thus the individual exists only as a body, having lost the essence of what it is that makes him/her a person. Hence it is not murder to terminate what remains of one’s mere biological existence.
2. Quality of Life – In cases of unrelenting and unrelievable suffering where there is no reasonable hope of improvement, life ceases to be worth living. In such cases, an individual or his/her family ought to be free to say “enough is enough” and put an end to such incessant misery. No one should be compelled to live a life that they no longer regard as life worth living.
3. Mercy – We extend mercy to animals when we put them out of their misery. Why should we be less merciful to humans?
4. Utilitarian concerns – Most people cannot afford to underwrite the expense of keeping a terminally ill or comatose person alive. To do so places an unfair burden on other members of the family. Why should tax dollars and precious hospital space and technology be expended to perpetuate the life of someone who will never function in society again when there are other, potentially productive people, who cannot receive proper care?
Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices… I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.
Extra-large eggs; room temperature (I used "large" eggs)
1 1/4
c
Sugar
2
ts
Vanilla extract
1/2
ts
Almond extract
2
c
All-purpose flour; dipped and leveled
1/3
c
Cocoa
1
c
Slivered almonds; (optional) (I included in recipe)
INSTRUCTIONS
Hands-on time: 15 minutes Baking time: 1 hour
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease and flour two baking sheets.
Set aside. Combine eggs and sugar in mixer bowl and beat on high speed of
mixer for 10 minutes, scraping down bowl several times. (I used a hand
mixer). Beat in extracts. Meanwhile, sift flour and cocoa together (I did
this before starting the recipe, as I have a hand mixer). Reduce mixer
speed to lowest setting and gently fold flour-cocoa mixture into egg-sugar
mixture; then fold in almonds. Do not overmix. Spread half of batter on
each prepared pan to form a fat loaf shape about 15-inches-long by-5
1/2-inches wide, rounded at the ends. (My batter looked thinner than I'd
anticipated, but seemed to "set up" some on the pan). Bake 25 minutes, or
until crusted and dull on top. With broad spatula, transfer loaves to rack
and cool 30 minutes. Then, with serrated knife, cut each loaf into 15
slices. Arrange slices in single layer on ungreased cookie sheets. Return
to oven and bake 7 to 10 minutes. Turn and bake another 7 to 10 minutes, or
until biscotti are crisp. (Watch carefully - the ends can get burned). Cool
on rack to room temperature, then store in air-tight container up to 3
weeks.
Per biscotti: 97 calories; 3 gm fat; 0.4 gm saturated fat; 32 mg
cholesterol; 11 mg sodium; 16 gm total carbohydrate; 3 gm protein; 0.6 gm
dietary fiber.
Posted to FOODWINE Digest by Elizabeth Post <millefiore@FUSE.NET> on Dec
28, 1997
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