Gallows Humor

Yeah, I know that this is sick and insensitive, but it’s also funny as hell and perfectly captures the lies and exploitation behind the “Save Terri” movement :

The funniest thing was a comment on a Fark thread where someone compared Terri to Michigan J. Frog; when only her parents are in the room, she sings, dances and talks, but can’t do a thing when someone comes in to witness the event.

To put this in visual terms, here’s what they want us to believe :




But here’s what we end up seeing :



As these tense days go on, the prospect of dying with dignity becomes less about ending her status in a vegetative purgatory and more about freeing her of the burden of being a political prop for the extreme right.


posted by greg on March 25, 2005 @ 11:17 am

6 comments

  1. Nicely done – it works much better with the visual. Thanks for the link.

    Comment by Michael — March 25, 2005 @ 11:39 am

  2. That’s hysterical — in a sick twisted way, of course.

    I love that cartoon, by the way. Every time I watch it there’s a tiny portion of my brain that thinks, “This time he’s going to get that curtain open!” Of course, he never does; but there’s always that nanosecond where it looks like he might.

    And that’s just brilliant filmmaking, pure and simple.

    The other thing about that cartoon is how eerie it is. It could be a Twilight Zone episode — and it was made three or four years before the Twilight Zone ever hit the airwaves.

    I miss Chuck Jones…

    Comment by Roddy McCorley — March 25, 2005 @ 3:32 pm

  3. The conservatives have been truly outrageous. Delay almost made it sound like
    she was in her hospital room playing gin rummy and drinking Manhattans.

    Comment by jim marquis — March 25, 2005 @ 10:42 pm

  4. Funny, but sick.

    AAAAAH WAAAAH

    That’s what they filed their latest appeal on. Her parents are unhinged.

    Comment by Unstable Isotope — March 26, 2005 @ 12:39 pm

  5. Rumor has it Terri’s brain stem has been asking her family for 15 years, “Why are those activist judges trying to kill me?”

    Comment by E-Stax — March 27, 2005 @ 8:39 am

  6. Hello my honey, Hello my baby, Hello my ragtime gal…

    This made me feel like Dr. McCoy muttering

    Trackback by CaptainNormal.org — March 30, 2005 @ 1:28 pm

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