If Schiavo didn't have that child-like smile would the interest be there? [View All]

[LostInAnomie]

I think one of the cruelest ironies of the Terry Schiavo case is that despite the hell she has been in for the past 14 years she has that child like smile on her face. Not because she is doing it herself or even has the mental faculties to feel happiness, but because her lifeless brain placed it there. That image has been used by those religious right bastards to play on our sympathies and take the countries focus away from the fact that Terry for all intensive purposes is dead. She is nothing more than an animated corpse waiting to be relieved of her misery. If only her family would realize that the person they loved is no longer there.

Would she receive as much sympathy, and attention from the media if instead of a pleasant expression she had a twisted grimace that expressed the hell she is in?