I hate to add to to the overwhelming amount of press the Terri Schiavo deathwatch is getting, but I do have a few things to say.

**As I am writing this, NBC is breaking the news that Terri Schiavo has died.May she finally rest in peace.***

First, why aren't we focusing on the fact that this woman had a severe eating disorder that caused the heart attack that led to the brain damage she suffers from today? We only hear about the political fight over "right to life" by the same people that pushed for a contradictory law in Texas in 1999 signed by then Governor George W. Bush. As Governor, Bush Signed Right-to Die Law.

Second, hasn't the opportunity to feed their daughter passed? What was the relationship like between Terri and her parents, and her husband? Her family has slandered him, his new girlfriend and children can not leave their house because of death threats, but who really has her best interest in mind? If she was starving herself and overdosing on laxatives then she had serious issues that we aren't aware of, and honestly, we don't need to know. Her privacy is what has been denied. If you were Terri, would you want the pictures that are on television of her all slackjawed and disabled viewed in public? She had an eating disorder, chances are she was a little sensitive about her appearance.

Third, Tom DeLay let his father die. He denied him life support. What are his intentions?

If human life is so important, why is George Bush such a big fan of the death penalty? Why does he care so little about the civilian casualties in the Iraq war? The casualties cannot even be estimated because of the destruction and the fact that the red cross and other organizations aren't allowed access to count heads.

If starvation is such a cruel way to die, then why has malnutrition doubled since the US occupation of Iraq for children under 5 years old?
If life is so precious why is George W. Bush the only president in history to give the green light for the use of nuclear weapons in war, namely Iraq?

Finally, why isn't the media telling us what is really important? Because The Media Panders to the Right, thats why. Because we don't get to hear the important stuff or see people protesting war or our government on television unless it gets violent or to show dissaproval. In fact, the people we see on television showing their "support for Terri" are creepy and scary.

"TV coverage of the protesters outside Terri Schiavo's hospice has tended toward the softball. Many viewers weren't told that the "proud father" repeatedly interviewed about his 10-year-old son arrested at the scene is a convicted sex offender. And many viewers may not realize that Randolph Terry, identified as a "family spokesman" for Schiavo's parents, is an extremist who advocated death for physicians who've performed abortions."


It turns my stomach to see people outside of Terri's hospice with signs like "Are the Jews Next?" and to see parents with their mentally retarded or disabled children propped up with signs that say "Would you kill me too?" Yes, if I had to, so stop asking.

The majority of the US approves of Euthanasia and maybe we should be focusing on ways that are not cruel, like removing a feeding tube and watching her slowly perish, but offering a more humane, dignified way of putting people down, so to speak. When I put my dog to sleep it was very gentle, very peaceful and his suffering ended quickly. Why should it be different for humans?

Either way, Terri has died, and now we can allow the media to focus our attention back to Michael Jackson and whatever sensational story they can come up with.

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