Recoveries are posing some problems for ‘ethicists’

There have been several inspiring medical stories over the months this year of people coming out of comas and supposedly hopeless cases suddenly and inexplicably finding new life and new hope.

Wesley Smith weaves some of these stories together with the reminder that Terri Schiavo still lives through them all, and weighs on consciences perhaps now as much as ever.

Looming over all this good news like the proverbial elephant in the living room is the Terri Schiavo debacle. Almost every story reporting these hopeful events emphasizes that the Schiavo case was “different.” Maybe the writers are experiencing subliminal guilt over the part their biased and misleading reporting played in the wrong that was done to Schiavo.

Her legacy lives on in her family’s work for people like her, and those above.