Very, very sad that the Supreme Court will let Terry Schiavo die. The Talmud says that the Second Temple had a chance of being saved until one person did one creepy act of stealing another man’s wife and then, when the man fell behind in alimony payments, hiring the man and forcing him to be their butler while they partied.
The pain of one human being weighs so much in God’s eyes, especially if we cannot construct a society to protect such a precious life from a heartless predator.
What precisely is the point of keeping the body alive in the case of a person reduced to a vegetative state? The important part of them is dead already.