Choose Life (Jewish Perspective on Schiavo) ---Only a society that still believes in the human soul as something ineffable – a breath of the Divine within us – which cannot be expressed in terms of EEG's can produce a Yacov Tabak. By contrast, a society that defines life only in terms of the capacity to experience a certain set of pleasures is on the road towards elimination of those who lack a particular societally determined "quality of life." Indeed the judicially sanctioned killing by starvation of a sentient, responsive woman, who requires no more life support than an infant, is already well down the road.---