Government should stay out of people’s lives

The Terri Schiavo case has had a great impact on me, as 20 years ago I had to have life support removed from my mother. It was her expressed desire not to be kept alive on machines nor any other extraordinary measures.

Terri Schiavo should have been allowed to die 10 years ago. What she was doing was not living but existing. I was appalled to read the state of Michigan would dare to propose that an adulterer should be banned from making decisions for an incapacitated spouse.

I would like to know what each of the lawmakers would do if their spouse had been taken away from them under similar circumstances at such an early age. Would they have remained celibate for 15 or more years? I doubt it.

Can anyone blame a person — for I doubt if a woman in similar circumstances would behave differently — for trying to live a normal life? Government should stay out of peoples’ private lives.

Beverly Quinn

Dayton section of South Brunswick