You've got a legal system in the States where cases seem to go round in circles, and still end up sometimes with grotesquely wrong results. (So have lots ofther countries.)That's a problem you need to sort out all right. But cutting the Gordian knot by preempting thate legal system by ensuring that the person involved dies first is no way to solve that prblem.

And that could have implications for other cases similar to the one Carol linked to.

But why aren't the people who so are animated about the case involving Terri Schiavo, on both sides - the good people I mean, not the cynics and the opportunists - united in screaming to high heaven about the issues involved in cases like the one Carol linked to? Instead of demonising each other?