Terri Schiavo: a memoriam

For over 15 years, locked in a failing body and mind, lost to the system of ignorance and neglect.  Held together by the mere thread of primitive brain consciousness which runs the basic bodily functions.  Forced to feed and drink the unappealing survival soup without a voice to ask for freedom from this suffering prison.  When you let out your last breath, and release the final bonds of consciousness and go on with your ultimate journey heading towards ultimate truth and liberation I wish you well.  May you have the blessings of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha that leads to a favorable rebirth in a realm free from ignorance.  May you attain awakening.
All the political wrangling going on has nothing to do with you.  This sickness gripping the country finds its roots in the poisonous greed, fear, and delusion which needs to work through the society, hopefully without killing the host, until we have an awakening that we have birth, sickness, ageing, death and the series of pain, sorrow, lamentation, grief, despair cycling throughout all our lives.  We have no sense of personal urgency to speed our own freedom due to a profound ignorance.  When we wake up we will feel the shame of our folly. 
Have the beauty of freedom flowing in, through, and out from you to fill the cosmos with love, compassion, gladness, and equanimity.  Be free.