I have to rise to Martin Gibbon's bait, if only to inform:

My sister in Greece did watch her 11-year old daughter die - of cancer of the ovaries, which metastacised all over her little body. In the end little Olga was in agony, and my sister, wife of a doctor and a doctor herself, but a mother above all, asked the hospital staff to give her a very powerful anaesthetic (don't know the name) that she could inject herself into her daughter, to end her suffering. Had Olga been on life support, my sister would have yanked the tubes herself. She was not allowed to do any of that, of course, the hospital staff being more "enlightened" like Martin. So she had to continue seeing little Olga writhe in pain for another two days.

Was justice and propriety served?

And to show that my sister had full presence of mind: I was getting married in the UK the previous weekend. I was all for postponing the wedding, but she insisted that we go ahead, and forced my father to make the trip to be at the service for us, because (her words) life goes on and we must not allow death to win by allowing him to sadden us.

Now, Terri Schiavo's parents may proclaim faith in God and all that; but in my view their unholy persistence in holding on to life here and now at any price belies their lack of belief in an afterlife and the redemption that comes with it. Some Christians...

Am I proud of my sis? You bet your arse I am!
Martin, you have the morality of an amoeba.