This is the question that has tortured me.
It's not that I don't think the man should "go on with his life" when his wife is never going to wake up. Of course he should. It's called divorce. People do it every day. If he was honoring his marriage by keeping it, why sleep with other women? Make babies with another woman? How many people here would want their ex-spouse to make a decision about what you're going to have for dinner, let alone whether you live or die?
THAT is what the government should have decided. That the marriage was no longer intact, and that Mr. Schiavo ceased to have a marital obligation to Mrs. Schiavo the minute his honey dropped her drawers. If government wants so much say in the bedroom, perhaps they could start by upholding their own damn state laws against adultery. But then, too many politicians would be in hot water.
Sad, but so true.