'In Love with Death'

Peggy Noonan on Terri Schiavo, again:

"Why are they so committed to this woman's death?

They seem to have fallen half in love with death.

What does Terri Schiavo's life symbolize to them? What does the idea that she might continue to live suggest to them?

Why does this prospect so unnerve them? Again, if you think Terri Schiavo is a precious human gift of God, your passion is explicable. The passion of the pull-the-tube people is not."

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Or as my mom asked the other day, "Why are people so gleeful that she's going to die?"

Why, indeed?