She died 15 years ago, let the meat rest.

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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.

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Looks like one good thing may come from this...the Religious Right may splinter away from the Republican mainstream over this issue.

Of course, this assumes they still remember the case two years from now, which is dubious.