Bobert---like you, I lost the Dearest Lady I have ever known, fourteen years back. She was still semi conscious when she was taken from me by the medics, and the final words I spoke to Her were "Ilove You-I love You--I love You" And she heard the words, I knew by Her reaction. my next sight of My Lady she was in deep coma. The following day, I faced a neuro-surgeon in Glasgow, who asked my sanction to take my Wife off life support, if, after a further check for brain activity, he found none. I asked if he expected to find any. He grasped my arm, shook his head. I said that if there was no hope of my Lass ever feeling or seeing anything of Her loved-ones again, he should do what he knew to be best. The following morning I sat and held her hand as she breathed for the last time. And if any "pro-life"[quotes intended, emphatically] nutter had stepped forward in these desperately sad moments and tried to condemn, I think I'd probably have taken his stupid head off.