Age of Innocence
The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.
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"Religious fanaticism, indeed religion per se, has an inevitable corollary, the refusal of individual autonomy. Followers of religions tend to want to impose their moral principles on others even in highly private matters such as life, death and sex. To be able to justify these positions, they must necessarily deny the advances of science. Today, thanks to advances in medicine, biological life can be extended virtually indefinitely. This creates a contradiction between the possibility and the opportunity of life. In this episode, reason and fanaticism clash: a dignified death against the supers..."
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This episode appears to be based on the 1998-2005 Terri Schiavo case. The central figure in a decade-long legal battle, after a severe 1990 heart attack left her in a permanent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband fought to have her treatment terminated as he contended she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means; her parents strongly opposed his wishes, resulting in a series of cases throughout Florida's court system to determine her fate. The courts ultimately sided with her husband after multiple physicians confirmed that Schiavo's condition was irreversible, and she passed away in March 2005 after her feeding tube was removed.
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The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.