QotD: The Schiavo Case

I assume that for all the people who actually know Terry Schiavo, there's no relief or feeling of vindication. Certainly not on the part of her family, who wanted to keep her alive and who apparently offered to pay for her medical care (a solution with many merits). But not even for her husband, Michael Schiavo, who on scant-to-non-existent evidence is increasingly impugned as selfish and greedy, the third in a triptych of celebrity wife-haters Scott Peterson and Robert Blake.

Indeed, what might be most appalling about the case is that while the people closest to the tragedy of a young woman collapsing and suffering brain damage deal with all the consequences of that, politicians and operatives on all sides of the issue are in fat city and will be feasting on the wasted body of Terry Schiavo for years to come.

Nick Gillespie, "Schiavo Appeal Rejected; 'Great Political Issue' Will Still Pay Dividends For All", Reason Hit and Run, 2005-03-023