Gunny Walker

I'm sure that you know this already, but Terry Schiavo has been declared dead. Again. With her dies, the largest political hot button since Elian Gonzales. Of course, the family say that the fight still goes on. Even though, she may be in a somewhat more of a vegatative state, they will still fight to have that feeding tube re-inserted. They don't care what those doctors say. They'll get an iron lung, and a pace maker, and a feeding tube, and a colostomy bag, and...
  Okay, so maybe that's a bit tasteless. This whole thing happened after her fight with bulimia. So you've got to wonder if she is proud of the whole starving to death thing.
  Okay, so maybe that's a bit tasteless. In other news, the Pope has been given his last rites. In case you were unaware what last rites were. It's the ritual that allows you to wipe the slate clean in case you die. Of course, it ruins things a bit if you get a really cute nurse, because then you are going to lust and die with a sin. Of course, the Pope really doesn't have that much to be wiped clean. He had been really vain by riding around in a really cool Popemobile. He had studied theater in college, but mostly he had lied about his real identity since taking the job in 1978. Of course, he can't speak, but if he does and still refuses to introduce himself as Karol Jozef Wojtyla, then the last rite can be voided.
  Okay, so maybe that's a bit tasteless. There is one thing that I read that I did find interesting in the article. It said...

The use of a feeding tube for the pope illustrates his position on treatment for the critically ill. In 2004, he wrote that doctors have a moral duty to preserve life. "The administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial means, always represents a natural way of preserving life ... not a medical procedure." The Vatican has criticized a Florida judge's order to remove the feeding tube from Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who died Thursday after nearly two weeks without food or water.

  The thing is that Schiavo had been in a vegetative state for fifteen years. Would we endure the same from the Pope? Technically, we might endure it for longer. Imagine the scene. It's Good Friday. They wheel him out on a dolly tied up like Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs. One of the cardinals grabs his right arm and moves it in the sign of the cross.
  Okay, so maybe that's a bit tasteless.