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• Schiavo's attorney carves out niche | Death does not scare George Felos, nor does it make him uncomfortable. It doesn't even bother him to be called a "death attorney" (Associated Press)
• Unwitting disciples . . . medical unknowns | There is a perverted, sinister sickness in Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, glamorizing Terri Schiavo's death, saying she looks "beautiful" and is "resting comfortably" (David Limbaugh, The Washington Times)
• Odd Felos | Michael Schiavo's very strange lawyer (Eric Pfeiffer, National Review Online)

Schiavo and religion:

• Schiavo's faith under attack, too | Very few people would want to be kept alive as Terri Schiavo. But if that is what her faith instructs and that is what she believed, shouldn't that be respected? (Jonathan Gurwitz, San Antonio Express-News)
• Exposing prolife zealotry | Terri Schiavo's legacy could be the opposite of what the right intended. Americans are being reminded that the religious right and its politician-allies are zealots (Robert Kuttner, The Boston Globe)
• The passion of Terri Schiavo | Listening to the passion reading from Matthew's Gospel last week on Good Friday in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, it was difficult to escape the parallels of the two passions (Vince Haley, UPI)
• Catholic doctrine on the end of life | Father John J. Paris, professor of bioethics at Boston College, talks about Catholic doctrine concerning the end of life. He discusses church teaching on the subject and a 2004 statement by the Pope on administering food and water to patients (All Things Considered, NPR)
• Monks comfort Schiavo's parents | Conspicuous in their simple black friar's robes, two Roman Catholic monks move daily among the colorful knot of protesters and reporters outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo lies dying (Associated Press)

Schiavo and law:

• Lessons . . . and lapses | Should Gov. Jeb Bush have defied the courts and ordered that Terri Schiavo be "rescued"? Perhaps he had such authority, perhaps not. But that does not give people, especially Christians, the right to rebel against judicial authority. Only when they are ordered to stop preaching the Gospel are they permitted to disobey. They can, and should, work within the system to change judges and the way laws are interpreted (Cal Thomas)
• States taking a new look at end-of-life legislation | Some legislative proposals are drawn straight from the battle between Terri Schiavo's parents and her husband. (The New York Times)
• Schiavo case: Should government pay? | Few have dared to raise the issue of dollar cost in the Schiavo case. But once the emotions of the moment cool down a bit, it might be worth asking just how much of a burden society wishes to undertake in the name of "life" (James P. Pinkerton, Newsday)
• Spouse as next of kin law has many roots | Especially the Bible (Associated Press)
• It is ended | How the justice system failed Terri Schiavo, and us (William Anderson, The Weekly Standard)
• 'Criminal or hero?' mom asks | She supports son's principles, not armed Schiavo rescue try (Chicago Tribune)
• How we die: choice and chance | In practice, we've designed a health care system in which the fulfillment of one's wishes on this matter depends on serendipity (Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post)

Schiavo lessons:

• Schiavo's lesson for us all | People on all sides share a moral obligation. We need to let the people we leave behind mourn with the clear conscience that, as much as possible, they did what we wanted (The Boston Globe)
• Farewell to Terri | What is it that divides us? (Maggie Gallagher)

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March (Web-only) 2005, Vol. 49