The terribly tragic life of Terri Schiavo ended this morning, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed on March 18.

Here's a collection of stuff I found on the Net and in the blogosphere about the case.

Abstractappeal.com - A blog about the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by a Florida lawyer. It has looked extensively at the Schiavo case and tries to be reasonably objective in the process.

Findlaw.com - This page covers legal issues involving health-care, death and dying in the U.S.

The Economist - An unsigned commentary on the extraordinary actions by the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress on the weekend after her feeding tube was ordered disconnecting, passing a law that would allow the Schindlers, Terry's parents, to appeal the ruling in the federal courts.

Salon (1) - This story talks about a South Park episode in which Kenny is run over by a truck and kept alive on life support -- even though Heaven needs him to fight a huge army of demons. Thing is, Cartman wants his new PSP, which Kenny had willed him. Kenny had a living will, but that page is lost. Cartman swears up and down that Kenny would have wanted to die if left a veg. The courts believe him.

The feeding tube is pulled, Cartman gets the PSP, and the angels sing: "They killed Kenny"!

Salon (2), Terri's last message - The concluding grafs:

Right-wing talk stations here, which have done much to keep the Schiavo case in the news for the past five years, are proclaiming this a new day in America. The callers and the jocks say that Schiavo's final moments will usher in a new moral code in America.

But that remains to be seen. On Thursday afternoon, after the press conferences had gone dark, most of the pilgrims said they planned to stick around for a few days to attend Schiavo's funeral. One wonders if these people will continue their fight after that -- and if their allies in Congress will fight with them. For all their energy, this is one of those cases that may well come to naught. Like those media firestorms that erupt in the land from time to time (often in Florida -- remember Elián?), this could be one of those things we forget about tomorrow, an intense national drama that never again affects the larger world.

Salon (3), a tale told by an idiot -  It was fitting that reporters were in danger of outnumbering pro-life supporters outside Terri Schiavo's hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., on Thursday. When one man began to play the trumpet moments after Schiavo's death was announced at 9:50 a.m., a gaggle of cameramen quickly surrounded him, two or three deep.

Has there ever been a set of protesters so small, so out of proportion, so outnumbered by the press, for a story that had supposedly set off a "furious debate" nationwide? That's how Newsweek.com described the Schiavo story this week. Although it's not clear how a country can have a "furious debate" when two-thirds of its citizens agree on the issue or, in the case of some Schiavo poll questions (i.e., Were Congress and President Bush wrong to intervene?), four out of five Americans agree.

But the "furious debate" angle has been a crucial selling point in the Schiavo story in part because editors and producers could never justify the extraordinary amount of time and resources they set aside for the story if reporters made plain in covering it every day that the issue was being driven by a very small minority who were out of step with the mainstream.

Dan Gillmor - A Terry Schiavo aggregator

BlogsForTerri - A collection of pro-life blogs. A sample:

I just can't help but wonder what in or out of this world motivates Michael Schiavo's actions. I'm begining to believe that the man and his attorney, George Felos, as whacky as it makes me sound, are evil incarnate. I say that, well expecting to be attacked by the Michael Schiavo admirers, but I just don't know how else to describe his actions. Now we have this bizare behavior:

- Breaking News From The Guardian Unlimited(UK)
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Terri Schiavo's ashes will be buried in an undisclosed location near Philadelphia so that her immediate family doesn't show up and turn the burial into a media spectacle, a member of the Schiavo family said Thursday.