A long morning's journey into late afternoon
The most horrible thing about the death of Terri Schiavo was how everyone who wanted her to live, who might have done something about it, got to stand around with their dicks in their hands.
They can't be blamed, of course, for letting this Judge Greer character nail the woman's casket closed while her parents stood there begging to be allowed take care of her. There were three very funny moments throughout this episode that made me want to just puke until I got down to that green stuff that my mother told me was bile, but maybe isn't.
The first hysterically funny moment came when Judge Greer (is that how his name is spelled? if not, I could care less), was offered affidavits wherein witnesses claimed that Terri had tried to speak when asked if she wanted to live. It was one of the many last minute attempts to save her. Greer complained that he should have been told about it a week earlier, when it happened, and rejected the new evidence as suspiciously late. How funny is that? Hysterically funny when you consider that Michael Schiavo waited about seven years before he made it known that Terri had once told him she didn't want to be kept alive in the condition that she was in.
The second hysterically funny moment (a few different moments to be more exact) came when the various appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court were rejected unanimously, without a single voice of dissent. Here's a tip of the hat to the "natural law" justice, Clarence Thomas, who clearly didn't want to step out of his federalism garment to opine against the deliberate killing of a non-terminal patient whose parents wanted to care for her. It looks like you've finally "evolved," Justice Thomas, and just in case you're nominated as the next Chief Justice, at least one embarrassing question has been foreclosed. Those hearings are going to be difficult enough, for certain.
The third hysterically funny moment came when Laura Bush was interviewed while Schiavo was still dying and she repeated one of my favorite conventional responses from the whole ordeal. She noted how important it was for everyone to have a "living will." Well, isn't that nice. Not important to save the life of an innocent person being sentenced to die by a judge as the parents of the person begged for her life and said they would take care of her. No, what this was really all about was the pain caused by the absence of a living will. It was a great First Lady moment.
All are forgiven, of course. Even the stupid prick judge whose "legal process" processed someone to death.
As damaged as she was, Terri Schiavo had the aura of personality. As limited as her life was, that life might have been very precious to her. She might well have had a very rich consciousness that had triumphed over her profound impairments. Her parents and her brother and her sister loved her, felt her presence, and wanted to care for her. Yet the dubious claims of the husband and some doctors with queer antiseptic charts overrode the love of the loved ones. Ignominy. Disgrace. Hysterically funny moments. Ignominy. Disgrace. Forgiveness because this Dredd Scott II called a vital moral question and morality lost, in our faces, and the grudge is simply too big to hold.
They can't be blamed, of course, for letting this Judge Greer character nail the woman's casket closed while her parents stood there begging to be allowed take care of her. There were three very funny moments throughout this episode that made me want to just puke until I got down to that green stuff that my mother told me was bile, but maybe isn't.
The first hysterically funny moment came when Judge Greer (is that how his name is spelled? if not, I could care less), was offered affidavits wherein witnesses claimed that Terri had tried to speak when asked if she wanted to live. It was one of the many last minute attempts to save her. Greer complained that he should have been told about it a week earlier, when it happened, and rejected the new evidence as suspiciously late. How funny is that? Hysterically funny when you consider that Michael Schiavo waited about seven years before he made it known that Terri had once told him she didn't want to be kept alive in the condition that she was in.
The second hysterically funny moment (a few different moments to be more exact) came when the various appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court were rejected unanimously, without a single voice of dissent. Here's a tip of the hat to the "natural law" justice, Clarence Thomas, who clearly didn't want to step out of his federalism garment to opine against the deliberate killing of a non-terminal patient whose parents wanted to care for her. It looks like you've finally "evolved," Justice Thomas, and just in case you're nominated as the next Chief Justice, at least one embarrassing question has been foreclosed. Those hearings are going to be difficult enough, for certain.
The third hysterically funny moment came when Laura Bush was interviewed while Schiavo was still dying and she repeated one of my favorite conventional responses from the whole ordeal. She noted how important it was for everyone to have a "living will." Well, isn't that nice. Not important to save the life of an innocent person being sentenced to die by a judge as the parents of the person begged for her life and said they would take care of her. No, what this was really all about was the pain caused by the absence of a living will. It was a great First Lady moment.
All are forgiven, of course. Even the stupid prick judge whose "legal process" processed someone to death.
As damaged as she was, Terri Schiavo had the aura of personality. As limited as her life was, that life might have been very precious to her. She might well have had a very rich consciousness that had triumphed over her profound impairments. Her parents and her brother and her sister loved her, felt her presence, and wanted to care for her. Yet the dubious claims of the husband and some doctors with queer antiseptic charts overrode the love of the loved ones. Ignominy. Disgrace. Hysterically funny moments. Ignominy. Disgrace. Forgiveness because this Dredd Scott II called a vital moral question and morality lost, in our faces, and the grudge is simply too big to hold.
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