A strange way to say thank you

NYT reported The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.

"These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri," says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father. "These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!"

S.Z. blogged Remember when I said that I was cynical enough to believe if you signed a petition or donated money at RightMarch to "save Terri," you would be added to Phil Sheldon's mailing list, which he rents out to other groups and to politicians? Well, per the NY Times, this has already happened.

Pudentilla blogged Everyone copes with his grief in his own way. Perhaps next the religious radicals could sell her clothes on ebay, citing John 19:23-24. or would that, at last, be a sacrilege.

Whatever you believed should have happened with Terri Schiavo, i.e. whether you thought Michael was right, and that she would not want to live that way, or whether you thought the parents should have been allowed to take care of her, and whether you are on the left (like the above two bloggers) or whether you are on the right (as I am) I would assume you would agree that this is absolutely outrageous.