"Schiavo has been kept alive since a heart attack starved her brain of oxygen in 1990, leaving her in what the courts declared was a permanent vegetative state."
I can't understand her parents, although I'm sure other folks can. I imagine her husband seeing her like that and trying to remember who his wife was - who he loved and married. Trying to figure out which one is really her. Trying to tell himself it's not the unthinking, unknowing flesh that looks like her, and wondering where her soul is. He's been reminded of this horror while Terri Schiavo has been trapped, or simply gone, for 10 years now.