Derb, I take your point about the pictures, but I have something weird to say: There’s actually something humanizing about those pictures, although I suspect unintentional. If you’re instinct is life ends once you’ve had a trauma like Schiavo has had happen to her, confining her to bed, maybe a look at the love a family has for her even now is good for us all to see—if there can be good that comes from such a terrible situation (I refer not just to her medical condition, but the legal mess, the media blitz, all of it). In some ways it reminds me of what I think the pope has been trying to show people, Catholic and non, that life doesn’t end with disease or old age, and, ultimately, how to die, yes, with some dignity, which doesn’t have to translate into taking it, or having someone end it.