What is astounding is that this case has taken on the characteristics of a global death watch. In Italy, Terri Schiavo and The Pope are front page newspaper stories. I wonder if the crazy Americans are going to be accused of killing again, only this time the spin will be that we kill our own.
I think it is appalling how, simply for the high shock and repugnance factor scores, the words "kill" and "murder" are being so casually dropped. No one is scoring nearly as high as they believe they should be using those words. Very quietly, but also determindly, polls show The American People do not believe that feeding tube should be reinserted. So much for the raucus and tacky catch phrases.
The worst of the rhetoric to me has been the connection Right To Lifers are trying to draw between Terri Schiavo and Jesus Christ. It's Easter Week, and the wingers are not missing the opportunity to draw comparisons between the crucifixion of Jesus and what they term the murder of Terry Schiavo. There's so much wrong with that verbal wander off into the absurd, I wouldn't begin to know how to adequately address it.
No one's death should become this kind of circus. Since the Federal Supreme Court has declined to hear the Schiavo case again, barring some kind of medical miracle or miracle intervention, Terri Schiavo will soon die. I hope her soul finds the peace in death her family refused to allow her at the end of her life.
