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March 31, 2005

The End of One Life

Terri Schiavo has died.

Update: And the crazy people have their say:

Jacobson, who has been playing religious and patriotic music outside the hospice for the past three days, said he didn't really believe that Terri was dead.

"I'm not believing the report of man," the bearded man said. "God will raise her from the dead, and all the world will see it."

Yes, I'm sure he will. Righty-o.

After the announcement, Mike Stafford, of Hollywood, Florida, stood before police, who had arrested more than 50 people trying to bring water to Schiavo, gave the Nazi salute and shouted "Heil Hitler."

At which point someone screamed "Oh my Godwin's Law!" and everyone went home.

Harvest Bashta, 15, of Chicago, Illinois, sat on the grass outside the hospice, her face buried in her hands, tears rolling down her arms and splashing on the open pages of her Bible. After hearing of the death, she said the passage, "Whose report shall we believe," kept running through her mind....

"It grieves my heart to know that God's heart is grieving. God's desire's never to have death happen unjustly," Bashta said.

She then contemplated the contradiction in an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God having his desires thwarted. Her head then imploded.

My prediction: There will be much gnashing of teeth about this from the right-wing until next week when some gay person asks to be equal.