Schiavo dies. Whether she died today, or she died 15 years ago, whether she would have wanted a "life" like she has "lived" for the past 15 years or not, all that is irrelevant not. Thoughts should be with her family and husband, who just today have accepted that their daughter and wife is dead. As well as the other ten thousand or however many people die every day.

Now, as my friend put it, "Perhaps now the percentage of grotesque political grandstanding and hypocrisy on TV will decrease and we'll get back to more truly important stuff like whether or not a batsh*t insane washed up pop-star diddled some children."