Tony Auth on Terri Schiavo

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth drew this today, and joined 17 other major editorial cartoonists in identifying one or another painful, difficult, paradoxical or pointed aspect of the Schiavo ordeal. - Paul Root Wolpe

posted Apr 2, 2005 | link | jump to the comments (1)

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Whether intentionally on Auth's part or not, the text closely parallels the famous epitaph chosen by her parents for Nancy Cruzan after their long fight to discontinue artificial feeding and hydration in her case:
Born July 20, 1957.
Departed Jan. 11, 1983.
At peace Dec. 26, 1990.

- by Kevin T. Keith on Apr 4, 2005 at 2:39 AM | link

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