Terri Schivo is fucking dead, already. Let it go.

It's not like I don't feel bad for the parents. It's not like I want to condemn a woman to death. (well, at least, not this one.) The fact of the fucking matter is, this chick is GONE. She's a veggie. And she's always going to be. If there was a chance she'd get better, I'd be all for stepping in. But if that was the case, the federal government, and those boot lickers in Congress wouldn't HAVE to. If she wasn't anything but a organic shit factory, this wouldn't have even gone to court.

Instead, she's in a persistant vegitative state. Which is not TECHNICALLY "brain dead", but if you looked the word up in the cultural lexicon, well, it'd be there. The lights are quite literally on, and nobody is home.

Congress is not only GROSSLY overstepping it's bounds in passing this bill, it is doing it for a purely political reason. President Bush is either doing it for a higher approval rating, or because the little man who lives in his ear told him to, it's really hard to tell these days. They don't give a fuck if this woman lives (ha) or dies anymore than they care what I had for breakfast.

As for the opposition, look, christian nutcases, yes, it sucks when someone dies. I think we can all admit this. But this woman has been "dead" in every sense of the word save the biological for 1.5 DECADES. Her husband has been fighting a bitter legal battle trying to put her out of her misery, basically, for 7 years.

The only quasi-rational argument I've heard supporting having her feeding tube put back in stands on one clump of 'facts'. That Terri responds to her mother. Laughs, cries, and her eyes follow people around the room. If you trace these facts back to their source, they come from two places. The parents, who, frankly, are biased, and overly optimistic about thier child, as parents are wont to be, and Christian Pro Life groups websites, or websites owened by said groups, who have had NO actual contact with this woman.

Every doctor who has spent time with her has diagnosed her the same way. "Persistant Vegitative State". And they've sent a lot of doctors in there. But no matter what you might think of the medical community, they arn't in the habit of saying people are vegitables so they can get a perverse joy out of watching her die slowly. That's all you need to know. DOCTORS SAY SHE IS BRAIN DEAD, AND WILL NOT GET BETTER. So why the fucking national forum? What right do ANY of us have to stick our dicks in this man's buisness? What right does the GOVERNMENT have to try to tell this man he can't let his wife die, because some outwardly moral pricks in D.C. want flak to aim at their opponents in the next election?

I didn't really want to write and article on this issue, but once again, the papers and the television news arn't saying what they fucking SHOULD. Becuase, at the end of they day, they make their money to pry into people's lives. Even when all America should really be doing for Terri Schivo at this point is leaving her the fuck alone, and letting her family try to come to peace with what has happened.

For the record, if I ever end up like that, kill me. I figured I should put that in writing, since otherwise my mom might go nuts with grief and keep me alive with a tube in my intestines for a few decades.

...though that's not nessicarily going to be enough. If she gets enough media coverage, at least we can be fairly certain that some republican dickhead will be ready to champion my zombified life. Yay. Hooray for government.