Terri Schiavo Redux

Sunny von Bulow died last week, after a prolonged coma during which she exhibited no signs of brain activity. All the retrospectives that I read or heard focused on the celebrity of the participants in this sensational whodunnit--none addressed the travesty of forcing sustenance through a stomach tube into a mindless husk for 28 years. This tragedy illustrates not the sanctity of preserving life but the obscenity of prolonging death. R.I.P. Sunny--finally.