Sadly Schavio

I suppose I have to weigh in on the Schavio autopsy report even though I find it profoundly depressing. But since the left seem to be gloating around the blogopsphere, I have to say something.

"Jon Thogmartin , the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner, told reporters that the 41-year-old Schiavo would not have lived after her feeding tube was removed even if she had been fed or given liquids by mouth.
"Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death whether she was fed or hydrated by mouth or not," Thogmartin told reporters."via Fox News.

Really? So her parents could have taken her home and given her the comfort and love and water that they wished to, and she would have died a natural death with dignity surrounded by those who loved her the most? You know, the exact thing all the pro-life people wanted.

I never cared what the arguments were over the amount of brain activity, nor did I listen to any gossip about her husband. What I advocated from the beginning is that her parents be allowed to take her home and take care of her until her natural death. It may have taken a bit longer, but as the medical examiner said, she would have died soon anyway.

Then we (not to mention her parents) would have been spared the gruesome 2 weeks she slowly died of thirst.

This was a human being. Her parents wanted to care for her. We forced them to watch her die of thirst.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.