really really really bad taste. I mean it.

[kellinator]

Is it a sign of just how cynical I've gotten that a big part of me is wondering if now Terri Schiavo's parents and their cronies in the religious right who have exploited her for political gain are pissed that she's no longer the biggest death-related news story of the day?

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[stevietee.livejournal.com]

I remember that Mother Teresa died around the same time as Princess Diana, and she got the short end of the stick.

Because some ditzy, inbred blonde deserves more press than a woman who devoted her whole life to helping the poor and unwanted.

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Appropriately snarky, yes. Not very Catholic PC either.

Still, it's practically the same thought that crossed my mind so...*shrug*

[yendi]

It speaks to your relative innocence that you're merely wondering. I'm certain of it, as much as I'm certain they were pissed when Johnny Cochran knocked them off the front page for an hour, and when that Jesus guy took them off the front page on Sunday.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Terri Schiavo's parents need to go back to living now, and I don't know if they remember how. They've made a career of being her parents for the last seven years, if not the entire fifteen. If they mourn and return to private life I might consider them sincere in their concern for their child, but right now I suspect they will continue to batten on her death as the poster-children (poster-parents?) for the Religious Wrong.

[sleepinbeauty.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I had similar thoughts today.

[dorei.livejournal.com]

I'd agree about the cronies part. As for her parents, I don't know for certain about that.

When someone you love dies, it's hard to look beyond your little circle of the world to other things, or at least, not see everything through the shadow of that. I'm certain that many of things they have said are out of anger and hurt because they're very self-focused. Then again, grief IS a self-focused process. I would not be surprised at all if they view the Pope's passing as some sort of sign regarding the passing of their daughter.

When you're grieving, you want to alternately lash out at everyone and at the same time look for comfort. Nothing makes you feel more helpless than watching someone you love die -- I imagine it's even greater when it's your child. The natural progression is that you should not outlive your progeny.

As for those cronies, though -- I think they're pissed. The religious right likes a good bone. And the politicians don't want you remembering the problems overseas and this is a good smokescreen that is now clearing.

[leopard-print.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the religious right and the republicans are pissed. I think it's unfair to lump her parents in the same category though.

I'll be honest, if I were in Terri's position, I wouldn't want to be kept alive. However, if my parents had any doubt that that was the case (which they don't) I would want them to fight for me. I wouldn't want the media flashing my vegitated face all over the world but I hope my parents wouldn't just throw in the towel and say 'Fuck it, who cares if she might've wanted to live? Who cares if there's any possible hope for her?'

If your own family won't fight for you to the end of the world and back, you've got nothing.

I admire her parent's stance as much as I admire her husband's. Anybody who can't empathize with both sides of such a tragic circumstance is being just as short-sighted as all the people using it to gain attention for themselves.

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

Someone else on my friends list commented that Bush gave more of a shit about the death of one white, Christian woman than he did about the deaths of women and children in Iraq.

She's right.

Of course, now that she's dead, everyone has to keep going on about it. And it looks like the Pope is next. I wonder what he'll discover when he gets to heaven (stops right here for fear of offending anyone's beliefs.)

[on-se-dit-tu.livejournal.com]

I can't believe that THEY couldn't simply allow that poor woman to die with dignity. There are fates worse than death...