Divorce and the Living Death

Several weeks ago, Pat Robertson made some comments on his show the 700 club that rocked the Christian blogosphere. Several weeks later people are still writing about it. I'm hardly a regular watcher of the 700 Club(!) but if you read any news site or blog that discusses theology, religion and politics, or other related issues from a Protestant perspective it's hard to have missed it. Since I'm not only a Protestant but also a grad student studying philosophy of religion (meaning: what people think about God and why is actually very interesting to me), so perhaps it's not so surprising I heard the story third- or fourth-hand.

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I'm curious, what do other people think? What would you say to someone who was against divorce but had a spouse who was in a coma or a vegetative state? Or in an extreme illness that pretty much obliterated the relationship? (I may be wrong about whether Alzheimer's is such a relationship, btw - I'm hardly an expert.)