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The Greek word for “witness” is “martyrion”. In our use of the word over all these centuries of Christian history, we have emphasized those who shed their blood for the faith. However, there is also a tradition of “white martyrs”, those who live sacrificial lives that change the world. That is what Terri did...

While I admire the family of Terri and their attempts to retain their beloved daughter and sister, I regretfully cannot agree to the above statement in the article. Please correct me if I am wrong, but Terri was bulimic and had heart failure as a result of insufficient potassium levels. I find it difficult to categorize these facts as “shedding their blood for the faith” or “living a sacrificial life that changed the world”. How can one possibly compare that to someone, like the apostle Paul, who lived a sacrificial live that changed the world? Sorry folks, but that’s just not reality. Unfortunately, had she not suffered the severe brain damage she did she'd be as well know as you or me walking down a crowded NY street going home from work. Further, and I'm only speculating here, but its unlikely that prior to her heart failure and ensuing physical state, that Terri was living the definition listed above. Of course I don’t know her and can’t say with any certainty, but how many martyrs does one really know? Don't get me wrong, this entire episode was sad and truly unfortunate, but let's try and keep the big picture in mind and always remember that God works in mysterious ways...In the grand scheme of it all Terri, in this case, was simply the instrument chosen by our Maker to redirect us all back to Him.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but Terri was bulimic and had heart failure as a result of insufficient potassium levels.

This is not accurate - just another of the many MSM perpetuated inaccuracies that were originally provided by Felos and Michael Schiavo. I'm sorry, but I'm just too exhausted to post a link for you. However, there are many articles in the Empire Journal.com that you could look up.

Terri never had bulimia. Even her husband said so. She was pudgy as a child, but that was years before. At the time of her still unexplained collapse, she was a healthy young 26-year-old woman of normal weight. Look at her photos.

She shed blood all right. Broken ribs, two broken ankles, two broken knees, her right femur -- strongest bone in the body -- snapped in the middle, broken back and a severe head injury. These injuries are not explained either. This information is the result of a radiological bone scan one year after her "collapse."

The report said in dry medical language, "This patient has a history of trauma." A Freeper physician who looked at the report put it in stronger language. If she wasn't in a severe auto wreck (and she wasn't), "somebody beat the crap out of her."

Michael Schiavo and his lawyers concealed the bone scan report. The family didn't find out about it until 12 years later. If the doctors Michael had sued for malpractice had known about it, they would have had a perfect defense.

Healthy young women simply do not collapse of potassium imbalance in the middle of the night. The leading cause of death or serious injury is -- domestic violence.

OK. Here we go again. It appears that Michael Shiavo (and perhaps his supporters) are the only ones who have accused Terri of being "bulimic". WHO ARE HER ACCUSERS and WHO IS THE "DOCTOR" who labeled her "bulimic" PRIOR to her death and Michael's decision to starve and dehydrate her?

If Michael was so solicitous of her health, then WHY did he not get her medical and psychiatric help for the alleged "bulimia" BEFORE she allegedly collapsed?

I don't know if she was or was not bulimic but as far as I read the only thing that seemed to lead to this diagnose was a low postassium level.
By the way if bad eating habits lead to heart attacks how come jockeys aren't dropping of heart attacks every day.
I think there was a lot more to her original hospitalization that is being covered up by Geer and his cronies.

I respectfully propose that it became irrelevant. She was a victim of the culture. Her attorney, and I don't know if this is true, said she attended mass with her parents either the day or shortly before the incident.

How many saints practically starved themselves to death for their cause? I know it's apples and oranges, but I think she deserves to become a saint anyway if their is a legal way to make her one. Here we go. First the law of the state and now the law of the church.

"Please correct me if I am wrong, but Terri was bulimic and had heart failure as a result of insufficient potassium levels."

Medical tests conducted at the time of her initial hospital admission found no evidence of a heart attack. You have an obligation to establish fact before concluding and opining. You failed the same test as Judge Greer and the bulk of the Main Stream Media.