She died 15 years ago, let the meat rest.

Yes, this is a Terry Schiavo post. Thanks to the media blitz, I know far more about the case than I really cared to. I know that bulimia led to the brain damage. I know that her husband spent eight years trying in vain to find a cure before giving up and starting the long road to pulling the plug. I know that she's lost so much higher-function brain tissue that gerbils can outsmart her. And I already knew that most people fear death so much that they'll fight to the last breath to avoid any implication that it might not be worth keeping a vegetative person alive.

There's no "there" there. Hasn't been for fifteen years. This isn't a case of a functioning mind being trapped in a non-functioning body. Let the shell go already.

Comics March 23, First Looks March 30

( Best Book: Spider-Man/Human Torch #3. First Looks: Shatterstar, Phoenix Endsong, Pulse, FF, Otherworld, LSH )

   Dave Van Domelen, "For the record, I would just like to point out...that the *orangutan* can parallel park." - Human Torch