[trisham]

Satire has to offend. It’s value is to challenge beliefs and to change them or reinforce. It serves to instigate conversation on topics we choose to ignore. Often, the satirist ridicules his own beliefs to cause those who believe otherwise to question their own principles or lack of same. Get over it.

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Terri was a human being who was killed in a horrible way, and imho, there is nothing worthy of satire there. Exposure, yes. Shining a light on the truth is good, but there are some things that should never be the subject of laughter, particularly on a TV show such as this.

[little jeremiah]

Terri was a human being who was killed in a horrible way, and imho, there is nothing worthy of satire there. Exposure, yes. Shining a light on the truth is good, but there are some things that should never be the subject of laughter, particularly on a TV show such as this.

Absolutely.

[metalcor]

The bit was not about her death or her life, it was about the public hysteria surrounding a tragic, private decision. Some, like myself, don’t believe the public has any business inserting itself into the middle of such things and found the circus surrounding this case to be disgusting-— as the skit demonstrated. A children’s musical fit the reality, from my perspective. It wasn’t to make fun of her, her life, or her death and the prolonging of that process. It was directed at those who made it into a circus and did it with alarming vicious self righteousness that apparently continues today, for some. I don’t think it was very well done or even funny, but the overblown reaction to it is silly.