[BykrBayb]

Two years ago, during my coverage of the Terri Schiavo case, I quoted her father, Bob Schindler, who turned out to be prophetic as to his daughter's ultimate fate: "We pay great lip service in this country to disability rights, but as the degree of a person's disability increases, the level of protection that person receives decreases."

[BykrBayb]

Ping

[exDemMom]

Let us not allow Terri's death to mean nothing. If her example leads to increased protections for the disabled, then we will have achieved something good through her tragedy.

[goldstategop]

The advancing Culture Of Death. Its easier to kill someone who's not young, healthy, or beautiful. They're a financial burden and when they're in a coma, they're not sentient. So a rationale has been created to kill people that don't look like society's image of a person. The disabled fall into that category. People think Terri Schiavo's case was unique but I prefer to think of it as a bellweather on society's attitudes to the least among us.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[PGalt]

...steadily advancing culture of death.

[Saundra Duffy]

When others get to decide whose life is worth living and whose is not, it means big trouble. We're all in trouble.

[Old Professer]

As bad as it seems, the idea of inherent worth is only good until the bills come due.