When Marlise Munoz was fatally seized by an apparent pulmonary embolism, certainly all professionals working in end-of-life and bereavement care could appreciate the awful experience about to unfold in the lives of her husband, family members and friends. What no one could have anticipated, however, was the two months of horrific burden laid on their backs.

With all of the political maneurvering and legal posturing that has taken place, there has been “more heat than light.” But Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd, cuts right to the heart of the matter in this insightful article. Perhaps her most stirring comment: “But the freakish, dystopian hell superimposed on their loss was an inhumane synthesis of factors outside their control: obscure and misinterpreted law, cover-your-butt bureaucratic paranoia and hysteria surrounding reproductive politics.”

I have read few analyses of this case that shed more light on the need for sanity. Click…