Requiem: Terri Schiavo

Terri Schiavo Died This Morning

What else is there to say? It's over, and you feel relief for the media circus has ended. That Jesse Jackson can go home.

But in the end, there is this poor family. Let's see them at their best. Parents who never lost hope. A husband struggling to honor his wife and live his life. A young woman struck down, never to return.

You always hold out hope. You always want to fight for another day of life. But when the river is rushing you toward the waterfall, at some point, when the body can no longer struggle against the current, you must confront the new reality that lies yet unseen, over the edge, and embrace it, imbue it with all of the new hope and new possibilities of an undiscovered country...and dive.

If you like to believe that the soul lives on when the body fails, let her revel in the wonder...