With Respect to Terri Schaivo

'How long have I been away?' asks firefighter as he awakes after 10 years: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Nearly 9-1/2 years after a firefighter was left brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did something that shocked his family and doctors: He asked for his wife."

Too bad he didn't have a humanitarian judge and a compassionate wife who were wise enough to perceive that the quality of his life was too low to warrant food and water.