May she rest in peace, and may her family know peace.

Terri Shiavo passed away today. To me, I think the biggest tragedy in all this is that I even know. For the past three years, her husband has shown the fierceness of his devotion to her in his willingness to carry out her wishes to his extreme personal detriment. The fact that he had the opportunity to divorce her, remand her care to her parents, and proceed with his own life unimpeded, and declined it in favor of carrying her wishes through the courts gives the lie to the vicious rumours circulated by certain political opportunists that he murdered her. He is now free to live life with the family he built after he mourned Terri for no less than 5 years. Her parents' challenge was seen as a political dainty by those self same opportunists, who were quite willing to pay doctors and lawyers to dandle false hopes before before the grieving couple in order to gain political capital.

Well, life goes on, among the living, and Terri can now rest in a peace too long delayed.