I thought the Schiavo case had been settled, but I guess not:

[1] Appeals court to consider Schiavo request:
In a rare legal victory for Terri Schiavo's parents, a federal appeals court has agreed to consider their request for a new hearing on whether to reconnect their severely brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube.

"Severely brain-damaged" is putting it lightly. How about devoid of all cortical function? Basically anything that makes a human unique (i.e. memory, emotion, intellect, and all other higher functions) are gone, with no hope of regaining them. This 2002 CT scan shows massive atrophy (shrinking) of the brain, that even I, as a medical student with 1 neuroimaging lecture under my belt can diagnose it.

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The individual Terri Schaivo actually died many, many years ago with the death of her cerebral cortex. All that is left is a shell of automatic reflexes…

In other news, [3] Vermont is looking more and more attractive, so the same thing doesn't happen to me.