A little vindication for death with dignity

We can finally put to rest some of the ridiculous charges made by the religious right in the Terri Schiavo case. The autopsy of Schiavo's body confirmed what the husband and every doctor who ever examined her had been stating for years: that she was in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery. Her brain had shrunk to half of its normal size, and she would not have been capable of eating or drinking without the feeding tube.

Thus, the whole situation was much ado about nothing - she was already, for all intents and purposes, dead for years - the parents simply wouldn't let her body finish the natural dying process. Still, I'm eager to see how the Republicans and the religious right try to spin this autopsy report. I'm sure they'll claim that something in the report justifies their prior actions - hell will freeze over before they admit that their accusations against Michael Schiavo were wrong.