Schiavo was not going to recover

Terry Schiavo's autopsy shows that the poor woman's
brain weighed about half as much as a normal human
brain. This amount of damage makes it absolutely
impossible for her to have ever recovered. It suggests
quite clearly that her ex-husband's position on her
medical condition was correct. It also suggest that
his moral position was a little less muddy than many
people have tried to suggest.

You know, it's a damn shame when anyone has to
die or suffer, but it does not live up to the status of
tragedy every single time. That in and of itself might
be another kind of tragedy, but it isn't a tragedy by the
classic definition of the word tragedy.