Terri Schiavo and a Potato

Alright, listen up, smooth-brain. This is a dark joke, and you probably won't get it 'cause you're not smart. So, Terri Schiavo was a real person, okay? She was in a vegetative state, basically a coma, for years. There was a huge, massive legal fight about whether to keep her alive or let her go. Her feeding tube was eventually removed, and she died of starvation. Pretty messed up, huh? Now, a potato is, like, a vegetable. You can't "starve" a potato in the same way you starve a person because it doesn't need a feeding tube to live in that context, and it's already food itself. The joke is playing on the dark, tragic way she died by comparing her situation to something completely inanimate and absurd. It's messed up because it trivializes a very serious and sad real-life event, you big dummy.