Lizzie Borden's father was struck forty-one times times by an axe in an unfortunate hunting accident. Her stepmother was struck forty times. In both cases, cardiac arrest, flat EEG, all that stuff. You know, houseplants. We asked eminent bioethicist Dr. Ronald McDonald Cranford what he thought about the 79 axe blows after the first axe blows. He said, "You can't be too careful with PVS patients."