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When someone says in court to a judge, or at a wedding to someone's family, that they intend to stay with their spouse for the rest of their life, that's a vow, and not something to be casually discarded when keeping those words becomes inconvenient.

The logical consequence of your position is the claim that divorce should be completely illegal, no matter what. You took that vow, now you're stuck with it no matter if your spouse beats the shit out of you, disappears for 20 years, runs around on you with everything else in town, or lies in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery and every chance of living for another 50 years.

Sorry, Charlie. We spent half a century fighting to get people OUT of that mindset, and I'm not going back in on YOUR say-so. There's nothing more poisonous than a marriage which is dead in all but name.

You keep throwing around the word "casually", when from all the evidence there was nothing casual about any of Michael Schiavo's decisions. Why does everyone have to make him either an angel or a demon? He was a human being, trying to steer his way thru a difficult course as best he could. He probably made mistakes. Who among us has not? Who's entitled to throw that first stone?