O'Gorman Students Call Schiavo's Death Murder

Even people who didn't know Terri Schiavo had strong feelings over her case, including students at O'Gorman High School. Even though they never met Terri Schiavo, there's no question she touched their hearts.

Several students at O'Gorman High School did everything they could, but even the power of prayer wasn't enough to keep Terri Schiavo alive. The news hit them hard, calling Schiavo's death a crime.

"We've taken away such a simple thing as food and water, that's definitely murder to starve someone to death to kill them through dehydration," said Luke Fischer, junior at O'Gorman High School.

"I was really distraught that it came down to this, she knew she would pass away," said Phill Eisenberg, junior at O'Gorman High School.

"In a country where one of our founding fathers wrote that life is an inalienable gift, it's been denied food and water, it's a basic thing you need to survive on. If you or I agreed to starve a dog, we'd go to jail," said John Michels, junior at O'Gorman High School.

"The medical experts saying that having a death through starvation would be peaceful, I don't see how that could happen at all," said Eisenberg.

"If nothing else at least she's no longer suffering and at least she's now with God," said Fischer.

"That's something to rejoice about, but for me it still struck a deeper note that's what our society came too," said Eisenberg.

"Some people wanted to make this a political issue, especially watching some of the major networks like CNN or Fox, they wanted to put labels on it as republican or democrat, what it came down to is life or death," said Michels.

"It could become so common, we don't think about it anymore."

"I think it's good that now that people have seen this sort of thing to may able draft a living will to let their best wishes known," said Michels.

"I think there's potentially something good to come out of it, what has to happen is it can't stop here, people have given it awareness, but we can't just let it end with her death, people need to work so this doesn't happen again," said Fischer.

Their biggest hope is that people start thinking about living wills and family's wishes.