Several days ago it was announced to the nation that, at the tender age of 41, Terri Schiavo died of dehydration. Demonstrators quote “grieved openly with gasps, sobs, songs and prayers.” (CNN.com) However, as this fifteen-year long legal and moral dispute comes to an end, one question remains: what the hell is the matter with you idiots? Terri Schiavo was assessed, for all intents and purposes, legally brain-dead fifteen years ago. She was declared, by several of Michael’s own doctors as well as several more unbiased court-appointed neurologists, to be in a “persistive vegetative state” – the only doctors who claimed that she may still have a consciousness were those hired by Terri’s parents, who, like the Bush’s, used Terri’s condition as an outlet to force their skewed opinions upon others.
After thirteen years, nineteen different judges in six separate courts (and more than thirty different rulings) were all convinced that Terri lacked a consciousness; that Terri had no hope of getting better; and that Terri would rather have been euthanized than have spent the rest of her life as a vegetable. The only reason she wasn’t allowed to simply die a peaceful death back then was that Jeb Bush decided to step in and claim to be the authority on all things moral. Yes, you’re a Republican; yes, you’re a Christian; yes, you’re an idiot; and yes, you still somehow managed to become governor of Florida: now stop rubbing our faces in it.
There are thousands of people dying every day because they can’t afford medicine, surgery, or health care; and if that isn’t bad enough, most of those people don’t even deserve to be sick – Terri Schiavo brought her condition upon herself (her heart attack was direct result of her bulimia). Yet still, you religious radicalists decided to spend tens of thousands of dollars – money that could have been spent saving the lives of many innocent young children, or possibly been used towards finding a cure for cancer – hiring attorneys to keep a brain-dead woman hydrated. Congratulations – I hope you’re proud of yourselves, jerks. Hey, at least now a few more people agree with your twisted ethical views, right?
[edit] According to the USA Today, twice as many children yearly have died of malnutrition in Iraq since the US invasion over three years ago – why isn’t there anyone protesting their deaths with picket signs?
