Peace for Terri: After 15 years of being kept alive in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schiavo passed away today. Hopefully, the media will let her family grieve privately, and radical Christians in the Republican party will redirect their sanctity-of-life battle toward, say, the death penalty or the toll of the Iraq war on children (more children are starving or malnourished in Iraq today than were under Saddam Hussein). Probably not, considering that the lawyer for Michael Schiavo received death threats for his work on the case. "The most challenging aspect of this case, from a spiritual point of view, has been dealing with these forces of such hatred and negativity," George Felos said in an interview last year. "I cannot imagine what would motivate somebody to call up and say, 'We have put your name on a death warrant and if Terri Schiavo dies, you are next."'