ill health

it hasn't been a good day on the news today.

firstly, it has been widely reported that Terri Shiavo has passed away. and now her husband and her parents are involved in a further confrontation, as her husband wants to have her cremated, which is against the wishes of her parents.

then their was news that Pope John Paul the second, the head of the Vatican, is extremely ill. CNN were debating the reuters report which said that the Pope was gravely ill, while other reports stated that he was seriously ill. However, when speaking to their correspondent in the Vatican city, who it appears speaks Italian, or whichever language the report was in, it turns out that the italian word can be translated either way, either gravely, or seriously.