Ms. Schiavo showed signs of feeling pain, showed signs of recognition when her parents came to see her, smiled and made sounds in an attempt to communicate, had facial expressions that were in response to stimuli. That is not a brain dead person. Severely retarded and will never be the same person that she once was? Yes. However, none of you can say that she didn't or couldn't derive some kind of pleasure from life.
There would have been NO harm done to let her parents care for her until she died naturally, as she was NOT in pain when she had her feeding tube connected.
So, I guess we should just start putting retarded people and old people who suffer from dementia to death now, according to the heartless liberals who care more about animals than people.