It could have been Terri

This breaks my heart. I was a blog for Terri and I blogged relentlessly to save that woman's life. I grieved for her, her mom, dad and family. The murderous husband is another story.
When I saw this news item today, my heart sank;

Coma Victim Awakens After 19 Years Sun Shines for All

One has to wonder what supporters of Michael Schiavo's efforts to end his wife Terry's life think when they see articles like this. The Polish man who awoke after 19 years in a coma was cared for by a loving spouse. Terry's parents would have cared for her as well if her husband had allowed them to but that was not to be. This case was regarded as a pro-life issue which in a sense it was. However as Nat Hentoff reminded us in an editorial for the Washington Times, "I covered the Terri Schiavo case for more than four years, going against nearly all of the other media in emphasizing and documenting that this was not a "right to die" case, but a disability-rights case. And that's why many leading disability-rights organizations filed legal briefs unreported by most of the press on her behalf……When Terri Schiavo died, I wrote that hers was the longest public execution in American history. Even the most monstrous murderer on death row would have received far more due process of law than she did. " Jan Grzebski was lucky to be living in Poland.

Comments

[tazzerman2000]

This piece seems to have changed the way I look at the Terri Schiavo case.... Unfortunatly, I had not really spent a great deal of time reading about the case or paying much interest in it... My mistake.

[Bearster]

Today's culture offers a choice of moral codes:

1) Intrincism. The good is divinely revealed, and blindly accepted. "Life" is good, thus all death is bad including executing a murderer, war against a dictator, or pulling the plug on a brain-dead body.

2) Subjectivism. Hey, whatever you feeeeeel like maaaaan. Anything goes, it's all relative, but Islam is more better than the West.

Pamela. Pamela. Terri was brain-dead. This means dead. What was left was a corpse with a heart that still beat. Life is not an intrinsic value. Human life is a value, but without a brain, a human-shaped body is not a human being!

On certain issues, religionists are just as bad as the moonbats!

[AmericanJewess]

While I felt bad for Terri's family and wondered at the husband's relentless efforts to pull the plug, there is NO doubt in my mind that Terri would NEVER have been a "coma wake up" story. Her brain was already degenerating. She was gone.

Her husband's behavior is another story though. I don't really understand why he didn't just let her family have her, since they loved her so much and it gave them comfort to sit with her. Very sad story.