The Undiscovered Country...
There's a soliloquy in William Shakespeare's Hamlet where the title character contemplates what comes with death. Most every one on the planet knows the first line of the speech: "To be, or not to be: that is the question." The rest of the soliloquy, which I've heard referred to many times as "The Undiscover'd Country Speech," ponders what happens to us all after this life with the undiscovered country being death itself. The Bard's words were never as poignant as they are today.
Certainly, Terri Schiavo has crossed into one undiscovered country today, while her legacy serves to create yet another figurative one. [
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