Riddle me this, Batman: How come everybody found it so acceptable to make fun of Terri Schiavo?

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the saddest part is that image of her with her mouth open is how she is engrained in everyone's mind, and not the young woman she looked like when she became brain dead...

no shit. I didn't even see any non-braindead pictures of her until after she was dead, and she was a really pretty woman. I wouldn't want to live for decades as a gapmouthed drooler with minimal brain activity. that's not dignity.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Pre-internet, huh?

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, challenger was '86. unless you were working at darpa, you didn't have no net.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't even remember 1986 since it was before the internet.

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i remember it well. it sucked.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Predictable.

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

dude like you had fun when you were 11.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10103000/10103720.jpg

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a very hard time dealing with death, and black humor is one of the few ways i can emotionally handle it

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i've never really been a twins fan. i don't hate on them, but never been a huge fan.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I probably shouldn't have posted a pic that you can easily fit Terri's head into. (XP black humor)

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

kirby can't see very well, but he ain't brain dead.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link

if she'd been married to kirby this whole thing would've been over a long time ago.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

PuckThePolice, indeed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

HOW COME PEOPLE THINK IT'S ACCEPTABLE TO MAKE FUN OF KIRBY PUCKETT?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Remy OTM

― amon (eman), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

so, like, when Jerry Falwell finally snuffs it, we can unload full tilt on his corpse, right?

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

survey says...YES!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link

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― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The impulse was obviously a reaction to the cynical appropriation of "Terri" for assorted political and religious ends -- she wasn't a person in that context, she was a symbol, the same way the same crowd uses fetuses. I didn't like the jokes, but I understand that they weren't about Theresa Marie Schiavo the person who lived a real life, they were about Terri the symbol. I don't know how that stacks up morally -- if it makes it "OK" in some sense -- but I think it's kind of inevitable.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

o god stence thank you for reminding me of that site

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

You guys are assholes, I'm gonna go play in the Neagro Leagues.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link

tears, streaming down my face

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

omg there's one where darryl strawberry imitates the crackhead from gta: san andreas

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

WHAT IS UP, DOC?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

GO JAYS

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link

if only the REAL jim thome were that cool ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

YOU HAVE GOTTEN MORE CHANCES THAN THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE ABSTRACT IDEA OF CHANCE HIMSELF.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

ROFFLE

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

do steroids

― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

honestly, at first i thought the shit was funny, then the thought of her starving to death creeped me out. they could have killed her in an easier fashion, couldn't they?

apparently starving to death is virtually painless, the only discomfort being dry mouth (in the state she was in, she probably didn't even feel that), which can be alleviated by sucking on ice.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I hadn't seen/heared any at all.

Then, I saw the "Thread Connections Chunka Chunka" thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently starving to death is virtually painless, the only discomfort being dry mouth

being totally on the pipe helps too. are you kidding?

― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

But I've not been offended by any of the jokes / photoshoppings / what-have-yous, just irked. They seem exceptionally cruel.

I thought so too, but I feel like I'm oversensitive to things like that so I usually don't say anything.

― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

so, like, when Jerry Falwell finally snuffs it, we can unload full tilt on his corpse, right?

I really shouldn't read this thread.

― The Ghost of SOGGY FALWELL (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe I'm a heartless bitch, but I don't quite get the "respect for the dead" thing. The act of dieing doesn't suddenly turn humans into saints. I've known jerks who died and then everybody was supposed to forget about their faults in life. I realise that it's good to be sensitive towards the loved ones of the deceased, but, frankly, the loved ones of Terry Schiavo brought all this attention on themselves. Any full-blown media circus is fair game for derision. They turned it into a tragedy, and tragedy begs for comedy.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

the loved ones of Terry Schiavo brought all this attention on themselves

her husband?

― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Any full-blown media circus is fair game for derision. They turned it into a tragedy, and tragedy begs for comedy.

I think this sums it up nicely, though I agree with most of the posters that most of my derision has been directed toward the protesters, not Terri herself. It sucks what happened to her, but, ya know, it sucks that people die.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to fess up that I don't know the details, because I tried to remain oblivious until I couldn't anymore. Maybe her family or husband didn't bring the attention on themselves, but it didn't seem like they tried to stay out of the limelight either.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"Maybe I'm a heartless bitch, but I don't quite get the "respect for the dead" thing."

dude, did you read my post up above? no wonder we are married in real life. we are heartless lovebirds!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

MARIA GET A LIVING WILL

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been guilty of this.

"It's occured to me that a lot of the nastiness might be as a distancing mechanism." I think that this is pretty much OTM.

At the risk of sounding callous, and since I don't know any of her family personally and cannot directly cause them grief, I don't think it's all that terrible. It certainly isn't unforeseeable. When I think of the thousands of people here who are going through similar family tragedies, seeing out their Alzheimer's stricken parents or their car crash battered children, when I think of the countless people slowly deterioating from AIDS and other diseases, when I think of the latest Indonesian quake victims or the victims in Darfur, it occurs to me that coping with death is something we all have to face (or ignore) in our own ways, with as much dignity and good humor as we can muster, and that a single death is but a drop in the bucket of our planet's woes.

I was not present when my grandfather died but there was a brief viewing before he was cremated, and I was shocked to find that I went through many different emotions during the breif period we had to say goodbye. At one point, though, we were all laughing as we recalled his many foibles and some of his better bon mots.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TOM DELAY OR PEOPLE LIKE NAIRN ACCUSE YOU OF BEING A MONSTER AND CALLING FOR YOUR DEATH ON NATIONAL TV 24/7 DURING THE PROCESS

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

If I did, I think I would take the opportunity to say on national TV that "Tom Delay is a motherfucking cunt. No further comment."

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

being totally on the pipe helps too. are you kidding?

I don't get it.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

The respect for the dead thing is a red herring, I think - the irksome thing about the photoshopping isn't that she was dying while it happened, it was that she was a person in pain that hadn't actually done *anything at all* to deserve mocking.

I am sort of puzzled that she's this Holy Symbold for the wingnut crowd, but not for its opponents: clearly she should matter just as much to you (symbolically speaking) if you're on her husband's side?

(double xpost)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree wholly, Daniel.

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Yesterday, I actually thought for a moment about her husband and parents. Politics aside, her death has to be full of emotions for all of them. I wonder how Michael Schiavo's kids are taking all of this?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Remy, thanks for this thread.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i hope that michael schiavo sues the LIVING FUCK out of the schindlers for defamation. and though i have ZERO chance of having the opportunity to do so, i would be HONORED to represent him in such a case.

thank you.

― Eisbär, Esq. (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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