Give. It. Up.

Terri Schiavo's body died one year ago today. Check out how Human Events Online (a national conservative weekly) marks the occasion (via Rude Pundit):

One year ago, a severely disabled woman took her final breaths and slipped quietly into eternity.

While discussions about the legacy of Terri Schiavo have focused primarily on the circumstances of her tragic death, it is also useful, and extremely edifying, to reflect on what Terri's life can teach us.

What Terri and all persons with disabilities offer is something invaluable in today's world. They can show us how to love, and thus, how to live.

Weighing in two years before her death, a New York Times editorial philosophized: "True respect for life includes recognizing not just when it exists, but when it ceases to be meaningful." However, anybody who has spent significant time with a person with a disability understands how meaningful their lives can be.

Perhaps the only thing they can do is to receive the loving service of their family and nurses, as was the case with Terri Schiavo. But the deep, self-giving love that people with disabilities require allows those around them to learn the intrinsic value of service to others, of bearing another's burdens, of unconditional love. Can anyone doubt that Terri's family -- as they pleaded to take on the burden of caring for her -- learned these lessons well?

Nice try, Asshole. I mean, for God's Sake, the writer of that piece and everyone else like him where proven horribly wrong in every way possible, but these people are acting like a huge ethical and moral mistake was made when Schiavo's body was allowed to die. It was a sin that Schiavo's body was kept alive so long.

And check this out (also via The Rude One):

The Christian Defense Coalition, Generation Life, the National Clergy Council, Stand True Ministries, and the National Pro-life Action Center to lay hundreds of roses in front of the court to honor the legacy of Terri and work to ensure the rights of the severely disabled are protected.

Organization also to hold a news conference on Friday, March 31st, at 10:00 am in front of the Supreme Court to discuss the Schiavo case and the future of the disabled and addressing end of life issues.

The irony, of course, is that these people, for the most part, don't give two shits about disabled folks. I think what they are really promoting here is an anti-autopsy agenda.