Thanks for posting this article. I am one of the thousands who finds themselves lying awake at night, still thinking about Terri and asking myself how is it possible, how did they get away with murdering a young woman by denying her food and water. I lie there and cannot go back to sleep, and I am an Australian, not an American. I cannot imagine how the US will come to terms with this evil deed.
Just as bad as the lying awake wondering how this could happen is how the media and politicians are already re-writing history to make us believe that it never happened.
Now, they want us to believe that this was all some political game, only the right-wing politicians sided with the wacko religious fanatics to pass an absurd bill to "take away" Terri's "right" to die, etc.
We don't know how to mourn or right an unjustice, because suddenly the MSM and the political opposition tells us one more time that we are wrong or imagining things. You would believe that only a handful of fanatical Congressmen passed the Act, instead of the overwhelming majority that actually did.
That's why we have to come here to see, hear and know that we are not crazy, and that history has not been erased.
"I cannot imagine how the US will come to terms with this evil deed."
It is hard to imagine, how this could have happened here.
I had an extremely unsettling dream last night. I had been invited to a party. In the midst of the gathering was Terri Schiavo...not well, but recouperarting. She could speak haltingly and said she was so grateful for the chance to begin to get better and how very much she was looking forward to her future, given that she was still so young. Would this constitute a nightmare?
I want justice for Terri. Florida failed her and the US failed her. She didn't get freedom and liberty. She got death.
I am not known as a cheerleader for "progressive" trends in western culture but this is yet another nadir. I see it plainly as a post-birth abortion, again for reasons of convenience. The number of abortions and (mostly to-be) euthanasia murders in your and my countries will make 9/11 look like a stubbed toe. I part with many FReepers in believing that the worst threats to our Judeo-Christian ways of life lie within, not from the Middle East. Terrorists can also kill innocent people, a terrible thing, but they have no way of altering the fundamental values of our society in the way that Felos is intent on doing*. If anything, the Islamics galvanize values against their own interests, even in the absence of mass terrorism (The Netherlands and Islamic immigration come to mind). Felos and Co., however, operating in a more seductive (to some people) and insidious form, have the ability to make right wrong and wrong right in the consciences of many people.
Again, your quote:
I cannot imagine how the US will come to terms with this evil deed.
The U.S. will come to terms in one of two ways: By accepting it as the "right" thing to do, in Felos' contrived morality, to be integrated into a "right-to-die" "liberty" (we know Terri did not want to die but this is how the history books will be written), or by summarily rejecting it as a morally repugnant practice in the (especially Catholic) Christian tradition. I have very little hope the latter will occur, just as abortion has stayed "safe and legal" all these years with the protection of the courts.
I'm not sure what to do right now other than pray. In the early 90's I visited your neighbor New Zealand and was charmed at the traditional values I encountered. Unfortunately, I know they are now going down the same roads converging at the culture of death.
Maybe a better place awaits us?
* I would make an exception here for Israel, as Islamics terrorists could and probably will devastate Israel to the point of cultural annihilation at some time in the future, but this vulnerability is a matter of geography.