Why don't they play ALL the video taken of her? Instead of the few handpicked segments on the website. Why don't they take more and show them? Why not have Bush go and see her?
I can't believe how people I normally respect have completely lost their minds about this case.
LOST their MINDS.
It's really sad.
Bones
"I can't believe how people I normally respect have completely lost their minds about this case."
I agree with you. It is shocking how many FReepers, names you would recognize, are vicious and vile in their pro-death stance. It's creepy.
Why are people taking this case so seriously? Well, I believe that I have read that there are some 35,000 people in this country in the same condition, or worse, than Schiavo. That's a lot of killing yet to do. Where does it end?
The culture of death has been marching down this road for over 30 years now. Despite all of the assurances that the limited abortion rights encompassed in Roe would be the end of that discussion, of course it wasn't, and now we as a society cannot manage to declare illegal the killing of full-term babies in utero, and have the judiciary uphold that law. Meanwhile, the "right to die" issue is morphing into the "obligation to die", soon to become the "right to kill". Where will this one end?
So, yes, this is a serious issue, and serious people are treating it that way.
I'm with you. I'll tell you what, I would hate to have my wife die by accident, especially if we hadn't gotten along very well. It reminds me of the case where a Canadian man's wife fell down the stairs while doing laundry and died. Unfortunately, the husband had the poor taste to get involved with a younger woman during the so-called mourning period and every one of the first wife's friends swore up and down that the husband had pushed the first wife down those stairs; one woman even claimed that the husband had his girlfriend on his lap and was necking with her during the funeral service!
But it never happened. Still, this guy had to move out of town because there are still people convinced that he got away with murder, and wouldn't stop harassing him and his new wife.
When people post stuff like "Schiavo probably tried strangling his wife and caused brain damage and such and such proves it.." it scares the hell out of me. I would hate to be in that situation.
A lot of people are confusing this situation with a "Law and Order" episode, where they've been granted the gift of omniprescience. Folks, this is real life, and while Schiavo may be a first-class a$$hole, I don't recall where that's grounds for going to prison.
By the way, I wonder how many of the really rabid 'pro-lifers' would like to see this guy fry? Hmmm.