[general_re]

Boy you got that right. The best we can hope for is that it'll usually work out right. Usually it does - the Schiavo case is very much an edge case, IMO.

[hershey]

A few weeks back, when several lawyers were 'round tabling' Terri's predicament on tv, one, Fox's Judge Napolitano, said past judicial action in her case had been akin to being a bump on a log, with each successive ruling validating the one before, in other words, they'd followed the precise letter of the law, not common sense.