> if there was NO government involvement at all in the
> case, the woman would still be alive
Not likely. Michael Schiavo would have simply removed the tubes back when he decided that was what he wanted to do, rather than go to the courts.
Which brings up the interesting fact that he could have just done that anyway. He wasn't under any obligation to take it to the courts to begin with.
You keep forgetting that if government were not involved in life and death issues families would need to take care of those problems themselves. The husband wouldn't have had a chance ~ he'd been long dead himself.