Terri Schiavo Remembered

This Saturday, March 18th, is the anniversary of the day Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. She died thirteen days later, on March 31st. The public airing of Terri's situation caused us to consider and debate profound issues of life and death. We asked important questions. What is life? What makes it precious? What makes life, "worth living"? What is the difference between medical intervention and ordinary care, and when, if ever, can they ethically be withdrawn? When, if ever, should the dying be treated differently than the profoundly disabled? At our best, we discussed these things on our blogs thoughtfully and graciously, in spite of the emotionally-charged atmosphere. At our worst, we angrily hurled insults and attacks at the "other side".

Tim at Blogs4Terri is requesting that bloggers remember Terri Schiavo with a blogburst during the this anniversary time, by publishing on their blogs posts related to Terri's case and the cause she represents. I plan to participate, both with new posts and with a few re-posts.

I will also link to other participating blogs, (blog carnival style), in three editions of Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo to be posted on Saturday, March 18th, Friday, March 24th and Friday March 31st. Submit your links to me at this gmail address. Send me the name of your blog and the title of the post and URLs to both. Also send a short, one or two sentence description of the post. There is no religious requirement for posters. Please send your thoughtful posts, and not attack pieces. I will reject anything I find inappropriate. Let's honor Terri's memory by making the argument for why lives like hers should be protected, respected, and loved.

See last years posts here and here.
Also see the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation site.

Comments

[Crystal]

So glad to have you a part of this as well. Will be linking and reading often...