Isn't It Ironic?Dying to be Thin

Not at all like the song, because the only thing Ironic about it, Alannis, is that there's not a single example of irony in the song.

And I'm not coming out either way on how I feel about the issue, although you can probably guess.

In most of the news reports on the "right/conservative" side of the Terry S. feeding tube thing, people insist that she's an innocent victim of a cruel and malicious system, as well as her husband's lack of concern over her chances to improve (and I ask, how much will she really ever improve, even given a perfect therapist & treatment?)

Innocent victim. The ironic part about her situation is what a lot of people don't know about how she ended up in her PVS. She was either anorexic or bulimic, to such an extreme case that the lack of nutrients caused her heart to stop. Like Karen Carpenter. When her heart stopped, she had the brain damage that caused her situation.

So she was depriving herself of food, deliberately. Yes, because she had a mental illness. And I'm not at all mocking the difficulty of eating disorders.

But that is truly the ironic part of this whole case-- a woman who had "issues" with food, who starved herself to be thin, and had it kill her brain if not yet her body, who is now the center of a firestorm of controversy about removing a tube from her bellybutton that feeds her.