the price of one life....

ok, so i went shopping and to lunch with my basically conservative mother....who is just as upset with the florida right-to-die case as i am......she accused the congress and the president of grandstanding at the expense of a family's tragedy....i opted not to remind her that she voted for said president.......and she went so far as to estimate the cost of her care for the past 15 years......180 months, gove or take....at roughly $10,000/month for round-the-clock care....that is well over $1.5 million.......and that doesn't count the money spent on lawyers fighting the in-laws......that kind of money could have gone to much better purpose than to keep a braindead woman in limbo.......the last cnn report is as follows...'The 11th U.S. Circuit Court in Atlanta ruled late Friday against the parents of Terri Schiavo, who are in a desperate race to save their brain-damaged daughter. Shortly before the ruling, her father, Bob Schindler, said, "I think the people who are anxious to let her die are getting their wish'.........what a crass thing to say.....that we in heartland america wish his daughter dead.......we wish none of this had happened.....that she had never collasped....that lack of oxygen had not resulted in brain damage.......and that she did not have to lie dying in a hospice with the world watching.......realistically she died 15 years ago.....the part of her that was her.....it is just the shell that remains.......her spouse is at peace with letting her go......i pray that at some point her parents find peace with her loss as well.......and i am happy for the spouse....who has many reasons to carry on after the dust settles......on the other hand....the parents have focused their existence on this for so many years, i fear for them.....having lost their raison d'etre......at the very least, those of us who have been burdened by the constant barrage of newsreports on this poor woman's fate will surely voice our wishes for end-of-life to loved ones.......as for me, i can think of nothing worse than laying in a stupor for 15 years with my loved ones bickering over my wasted bones.......what's next.....will the parents demand their half of her ashes?...............