Hi Rae,
Thanks for the good comment about this that you left on my blog. I think what you say is very true--we can't predict the exact minute someone will die. At first when I heard the news report it seemed like MS was preventing the family to be at Terri's side just out of meanness. But maybe that wasn't the case so I can't make any judgments about that.
Sr. Lorraine | Homepage | 03.31.05 - 4:37 pm | #

Yes, this'll be in the history books - as a time when this country came way too close to fascism than reasonably comfortable. Had President Bush intervened after the Federal court rulings, we would've taken the first step across that line.
TheSquire | Homepage | 03.31.05 - 4:40 pm | #

Ah, my Dr. Who buddy! Welcome to my blog.

I am not enough of a student of fascism to be able to comment on that. I do know two things: 1) Bush did not so intervene and 2) we took the first step across some line when we publicly starved to death a woman whose "quality of life" repelled us. One news commentator had it right yesterday when he said, "We looked into Terri Schiavo's eyes and saw ourselves."

Film critic Barbara Nicolosi has a good article about the sentence "I wouldn't want to live like that" which beyond anything else was probably the thought that sealed Schiavo's fate. Read it here.
Rae Stabosz | Homepage | 04.01.05 - 2:33 am | #