[fhdkweig]

> Nobody, at the time or since, said that Schiavo "wasn't really alive" but rather, some people wanted her dead

I'm saying it. She was in "an irreversible permanent vegetative state". That is as close to dead as you can get. Even a coma is better. You can wake up from a coma, but this is an amount of brain damage where the part of the brain responsible for consciousness is dead and never coming back.