What Terri and all persons with disabilities offer is something invaluable in today's world. They can show us how to love, and thus, how to live.
Weighing in two years before her death, a New York Times editorial philosophized: "True respect for life includes recognizing not just when it exists, but when it ceases to be meaningful." However, anybody who has spent significant time with a person with a disability understands how meaningful their lives can be.
Terri Schiavo: A Legacy of Love
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It sounds downright warm and fuzzy, almost patriotic and American-ish
Center for American Progress
Statement on the Anniversary of the Schiavo Case
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