Guess which position the Pope took in the notorious Italian Right-do-Die case?

I previously commented on the heated debate for supporters of patients' right to die peacefully regarding the case of Eluana Englaro, the now-38-year-old woman who's been in a vegetative state for 20 years or so after a freak car crash left her with irreversible brain damage. Well, after the politicians, now it's the Pope's turn to meddle in this affair, reaffirming his oh-so-boringly-wrong views that all Human life should be protected and preserved, no matter what, and especially the 'weak and suffering'.

Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that all human life must be protected, especially that of the weak and suffering, making a last-minute intervention in a right-to-die case that has convulsed Italy.

Groups of protesters — both for and against keeping Eluana Englaro alive — held demonstrations across the country on Saturday. Outside the clinic in the northern city of Udine where Englaro is being cared for, a few dozen people shouted "Eluana Viva!" or "Eluana Lives!"

Englaro, 38, has been in a vegetative state for 17 years after a car crash. On Friday, after a decade-long court battle, her nutrition began to be reduced in preparation for removing her feeding tubes, which her father has said was her wish.

Apparently, those cruel anti-Right-to-Die parasites, Pope included, believe that anyone should be forced to be kept alive, no matter if it was their final wishes to be let off with some dignity instead of being kept alive in pain or suffering. Not to mention, it seems particularly idiotic in such a case as this, seeing as the patient-in-question, Ms. Englaro, has – need I repeat it – IRREVERSIBLE brain damage. Don't waste your time praying to your inexistent flying fairy. Don't force this poor woman to stay alive even when she will NEVER regain consciousness. Her brain is fried. She's dead. Only her meat is being kept alive by machines, not by your useless hope for a miracle that won't happen. There is no reasonable hope that she could ever potentially come back to our world. Let her die in peace. Bastards.

Although, I can't decide which is worse: this poor woman's final wishes being betrayed by the assholes in charge who see fit to meddle in her business, or that she has unwittingly become the center of such a large media circus in the Right-do-Die debate. I know if I'm ever unconscious forever, I'd want to be let off in peace instead of forced to stay behind indefinitely because some self-righteous morons can't mind their own business.