The great fiction here is that the people who are killing her are acting as her agent rather than pursuing their own agendas.

What really struck me is her admitted lack of moral conflict over the matter. Bless her for her honesty. It is the opposite of when Kerry and Company say they support the troops.

Her comment strikes home as the biggest flaw of the vocal facet of the Democratic Party-the inability to relate to the average person. Like what happens to every player in the Apprentice who gets fired each week. Shut the hell up! Hilary is learning and watch how far she goes in 2008. The average person is saddened by the killing of Schiavo whatever their “belief” in states rights, marital prerogative, judicial sovereignty or whatever the latest rationale.

When a politician does not have the good sense to speak reverently of the soon-to-be-dead in a case like this, they will lose the electorate.

Vegetative?
-Steve

Or perhaps Peter will share with us his opinion about what should be done with Ms. Schiavo.

Fighting for life!!!

One more note. I am very reluctant to see the federal courts get involved in this. They have done far more harm than good and even if, as I believe Florida is wrong, the Federal courts should stay away.

Terri has not had an MRI or other diagnostic tests that would confirm or rule out the PVS diagnosis so urgently sought by Michael Schiavo. There is a set of tests that are considered the gold standard for the diagnosis, but they have not been performed. The guardian ad litem was not given much of a hearing by this judge. For the love of God, why are they not doing their utmost to make sure they are not making a hideous mistake? There is a question of fact here, a life or death decision, that has not been well considered. Is she dead or alive? So far, there is only a presumption that she is essentially dead. The guilty require proof. Why are the innocent condemned on a presumtion?

I don’t know what the right answer is, not having enough information. Neither do I believe the court has gathered enough information, or considered it dispassionately, to make that decision.

What do Terry Schindler Schiavo and the Pope have in common, besides their religion? Both require assistance to live. But TSS may not require as much assistance as her husband has claimed, according to a former nurse in the hospice where Terry has long resided. She says Terry can eat, and that the feeding tube may have been unnecesary. According to multiple sources, Michael Schiavo refused to allow rehabilitation that might have enabled Terry to become more independent. Why? I have not followed this case in the past, but the more I learn about it now, the more I feel that something monstrous lurks in it.

We can’t. There isn’t enough time. She might not be able to communicate even if we built such an interface: she might really be in a vegetative state. No one can know. It’s a tragedy and there’s no way around it.

I watched her eyes following a balloon in some news footage. Can’t we enable her to use eye movement to communicate with us?

Crimeny! We’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars listening to outer space. Let’s spend the money to ask Terri the question all of us are so darn interested in knowing the answer to.

Just a suggestion.
-Steve