Let Her Die, Goddammit

Once again, I'm the one who has to ask the hard questions: what the holy fuck is wrong with the Schindlers?

First of all, I should not know who the hell these people are. They turned the death of their daughter into a media circus, something that I doubt that anybody would want, and now they're celebrities of a macabre sort. Their daughter Terri - relegated to veggie-tard status by some sort of unexplained heart failure - was finally allowed to die by the one person who had the right to make that kind of decision, her husband and legal guardian. I'm sure all of you know the story.

Now, they're disputing the results of the autopsy something that should never have been made public in the first place. Now, I know that news reports often mention the results of an autopsy, as in "an autopsy has revealed that the victim died of a gunshot would to the chest". I've never seen a report that specifies the weight of the brain (615 grams, 1/2 normal) at the time of death, however. In a way, I was hoping that this would shut her family up so that we would never have to hear from them ever again. Of course, this was not the case. They immediately began to interpret the results to suit themselves.

To the Schindlers: Y'know what? I don't know how you managed to watch your daughter suffer for twelve years without putting her out of her misery and yours. Moreover, I'm amazed that you couldn't see that she would never come back. This is what "faith" does to people: it forces them to ignore the obvious. She was, for all intents and purposes, dead. She was blind and unable to feel pain, for chrissakes. Most of her brain was gone. Not just damaged, completely missing. You can't start a car without an engine, you can't rehabilitate a person without a goddam brain. Then again, maybe you're proof that people without brains can function in society...

My sympathies lie with the woman who died twelve years ago when she collapsed. A life cut short, ended before it should have been. They lie with her husband, who had to watch this grostesque farce play out for over a decade and being made to look like a deranged monster the entire time. They lie with the parents who lost their child over a decade ago, not the attention whores and morons that their misguided belief that she could be brought back has made them.

Death has come and gone. Say goodbye and move the fuck on.