As one can tell from the articles prepared for this Symposium, the litigation concerning Terri’s Law and that more broadly dealing with Theresa Marie Schiavo’s “right to die” has many implications. Other participants have discussed the ways in which this epic litigation saga implicates the proper interpretation of the Florida Constitution, advance directives, and how the litigation fits into the relationship between politics and bioethics. For my part, I hope to make a relatively modest observation, but one that I believe has broad implications for our democratic form of government. My assertion is that the Florida Supreme Court’s decision striking down Terri’s Law should be seen as a significant part of the tradition by which courts serve as a bulwark of freedom. By ensuring, as the Court did here, that no governmental actor or organization obtains too much power, courts across the country and across time have been able to preserve the liberty we all possess.