Martin Pistorius and the Culture of Death

Count on the media to miss the obvious angle when it comes to the culture of death.

The story of Martin Pistorius -- believed falsely to have been unconscious for 12 years -- is all over the mainstream media. NPR is typical:

His parents, Rodney and Joan Pistorius, were told that he was as good as not there, a vegetable. The hospital told them to take him home and keep him comfortable until he died.

But he didn't die. "Martin just kept going, just kept going," his mother says. His father would g...