Poynter Online: "Reading Terri Schiavo"

Terri Schiavo's long struggle is, for better or for worse, finally over this morning. God grant her peaceful sleep as she awaits the Resurrection Day when she and all her loved ones will be reunited. God grant also that those who have loved Terri and have fought so bitterly in their love for her finally find peace within themselves and among each other. Terri's great hope never was in a feeding tube or a doctor's hands, but in the Easter promise of a new and better life with all those who love her the far side of the grave.

Terri's passing is perhaps both a time of anguish and a moment of relief. Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute offers this thoughtful commentary on the many meanings of Terri Schiavo's life and death. It seems a fitting coda to this difficult chapter of her life.