The Terri Schiavo case tears at my heart. Everytime I see on the news that her husband wants to remove her feeding tube, it takes me an hour to recover from the anger and disgust at the probability that he's going to succeed in committing this cruelty.
I guess the part that really irks me is that the feeding tube has to be removed in order for her to die -- which is just cruel. That means she has to starve and dehydrate to death, which could take weeks. How could someone want to subject a loved one to that? The last time the feeding tube was removed, it was removed for six days! For six days she starved. My god.
Now the family has been granted three weeks to prove Terri is improving or the feeding tube will be removed again. It's almost enough to make me give up on humanity.
