Terri Schiavo
Terri Schiavo
The Terri Schiavo case was a legal struggle over end-of-life care in the United States from 1990 to 2005, involving Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery, and elected to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo's parents argued in favor of continuing artificial nutrition and hydration and challenged Schiavo's medical diagnosis. The highly publicized and...
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Date of Birth3 December 1963
CityLower Moreland Township, PA
felt the solidarity of all of you ... by caresses on her hair, holding of her hand, praying with her until her very last minutes.
This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, this is a killing. For that, we not only grieve that Terri has passed, but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this, and we pray that it will never happen again.
Back when Lawton Chiles and I led the state, Florida was governed from the center, a place where good ideas trumped rigid ideology.