Terri Schiavo has passed away.
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Details to follow.
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RIP.
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Who is this man?Originally posted by LazerLordz:Details to follow.
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+1Originally posted by Manager433:Who is this man? -
now the arguement ends.
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Terri Schiavo has died
Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 10:04 AM EST (1504 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the centerpiece of a national right-to-die battle died Thursday morning, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade.
Brother Paul O'Donnell, a spokesman for Bob and Mary Schindler, Schiavo's parents, said the couple was with their daughter's body and praying.
Wednesday, the Schindlers lost what their lawyer described as their "last meaningful legal appeal" in their desperate battle to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reinserted.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday refused once again to hear an emergency appeal from the Schindlers.
Their lawyer, David Gibbs, heard the high court had rejected the appeal during a news conference outside the Pinellas Park, Florida, hospice where Schiavo is receiving care.
"It appears that that will be the last meaningful legal appeal unless something comes up," Gibbs said. "Fundamentally, the decision of the Florida courts will remain unchanged and the federal courts have declined to get involved."
Thursday morning, O' Donnell said that Schiavo was in her final hours of life, and police have prohibited her blood relatives from spending time with her.
O'Donnell, one of the family's spiritual advisers, said that her parents and siblings were "begging to be at her bedside...but are being denied."
Michael Schiavo was Terri's guardian and controlled who may visit her and when.
Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer in Clearwater, Florida, ordered the feeding tube removed March 18 at Michael Schiavo's request. He has said that his wife wouldn't have wanted to live in her condition -- what Florida courts have deemed a "persistent vegetative state."
The parents felt otherwise and had sought to take guardianship of their daughter from her husband. Their bitter court battles began in 1998.
"I don't understand why Michael Schiavo at some point didn't walk away," Gibbs said.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has jurisdiction over Florida, Georgia and Alabama, and could have ruled on the petition on his own, referred the appeal to the entire Supreme Court at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday.
There was no breakdown of the vote, and the high court issued no explanation for its decision. The petition had been filed earlier in the night.
It was the second time in a week the high court refused to hear the case, and the sixth time since 2001.
The Schindlers "can know they have done everything possible under the law in letting government know that they wanted to fight for the life of their daughter," Gibbs said.
In his Supreme Court filing, Gibbs and other lawyers for the parents wrote that removing the tube represented "an unconstitutional deprivation of Terri Schiavo's constitutional right to life."
The Supreme Court's rejection came hours after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, rejected the parents' petition 9-2. That court denied three similar requests from the parents last week.
In a concurring opinion of the Atlanta court's latest ruling, Judge Stanley Birch said Congress "chose to overstep constitutional boundaries" by passing a law to force the Schiavo case into federal courts.
Judges Gerald Tjoflat and Charles Wilson dissented, with Tjoflat writing that the Schindlers deserved a hearing on the merits of their argument.
On March 21, three days after Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, Congress passed a bill transferring jurisdiction of the case from Florida state court to a U.S. District Court, for a federal judge to review. President Bush signed it into law the next day. But federal courts refused to overturn the state courts' decision.
2002 videotapes released
The Pinellas County Probate Court has released nine of 11 videotapes of Terri Schiavo recorded in the summer of 2002 and shown in a Florida appeals court hearing on her medical condition.
The videos show several doctors talking to and examining Schiavo to get ready for their court testimony. The tapes were recorded from July to September 2002.
Family members, including her mother and husband, also appear in the video.
Two of the 11 tapes remain sealed by the court, but it was unclear why.
In October 2002, Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeal heard a week of testimony from five doctors who examined her, including two picked by Michael Schiavo, two by her parents and one picked by the court.
Three doctors, including one appointed by the court, testified that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery. The two doctors selected by the Schindlers testified they thought she could recover.
The appellate court concurred with a lower court decision that Schiavo had no hope of recovery and that her feeding tube could be removed.
Terri Schiavo collapsed in her home in 1990, suffering from heart failure that led to severe brain damage because of lack of oxygen.
Her husband has said she suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder, that resulted in a potassium deficiency that triggered the heart failure. -
R.I.P
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haiz ........ poor lady .... cant even decide her own fate ..........
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Originally posted by Manager433:Who is this man?
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Very devastating leh..
Imagine how her old parents feel.. It's their daughter lor. They gave the life to her, and they wanna keep her alive let them be lor.. Very shuai one..
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she already died 12 years ago.
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since we're on this topic. if you were her, would you wanna be forced to keep staying on?
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It boils down to personel opnion, like that doctors have said about so many people who will never recover and yet they did.Originally posted by nismoS132:since we're on this topic. if you were her, would you wanna be forced to keep staying on?
i'd have chosen to die the moment they announced i was brain dead.
But, I think the parents should at least be allowed to visit their daughter's body. The husband denying them that right is a bit harsh.
Also, it was reported on BBC or CNN can't remember that she had indicated non-verbally she wanted to be kept alive. Well we'll never know. -
juz felt that the husband has no right to decide for her ....
she was born and raise by her parents ... her parents is her closet kin .... should let them make the decision -
thought she was just in coma?
zhi(2) wu(4) ren(2) ? -
God have mercy on us, for letting her be starved to death.
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The husband did not decide for her. He told the court that her wife gave the instruction b4 she went into coma.Originally posted by meltz:juz felt that the husband has no right to decide for her ....
she was born and raise by her parents ... her parents is her closet kin .... should let them make the decision
It is important that our govt legalised the use of living will -
coma and vegetative state totally diffOriginally posted by loseagain:thought she was just in coma?
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Verbal or just his wishes?We'll never know.But we have been made weaker for allowing someone to starve to death.Originally posted by dragg:The husband did not decide for her. He told the court that her wife gave the instruction b4 she went into coma.
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think i am going to sign a DNR soon
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How can such thing happen, I really don't understand these americans at all, they claim to fight for human rights but here we have a woman who is unable to fend for herself and is denied food and water... basic human rights while they debate it in the courts over the right of "freedom" to end your life or not.
Why can't they provide food and water & take their time to debate then? Why must this woman be allowed to starve to death without her feeding tube in a hospital dictated by the law of the land.
The americans have murdered a helpless person and one of their own, I think there is something perverse in this case and is very sad. -
That's why for once I support Bush when he took the case to Congress.But its sad that the people who support pro-choice have not realised that their politics have killed a human being.Life is paramount.Originally posted by KumSioJui:How can such thing happen, I really don't understand these americans at all, they claim to fight for human rights but here we have a woman who is unable to fend for herself and is denied food and water... basic human rights while they debate it in the courts over the right of "freedom" to end your life or not.
Why can't they provide food and water & take their time to debate then? Why must this woman be allowed to starve to death without her feeding tube in a hospital dictated by the law of the land.
The americans have murdered a helpless person and one of their own, I think there is something perverse in this case and is very sad. -
Terri was starved to death; she was deprived of food on the court's orders whose intention was to let her die of starvation.
I think it is important that we recognise that this is different from the withholding of medical treatment which is practiced in Singapore currently.
In Singapore, a person who has previously signed an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD) would not be resuscitated in the event of a terminal illness. However, an AMD does not entitle the doctor (or anyone for that matter) to kill the patient, whether actively (bolus jab of potassium choride) or passively (starving the patient to death or killing him by depriving him of water). The patient dies a natural death, not one induced by dehydration or starvation as in Terri's case.
Terri's case was euthanasia, and under circumstances where it was not even certain that she herself would have wanted to die.. it was all based on her hubby's claims which, for all we know, could have been influenced to some extent by self-interest. So essentially, she was executed upon the orders of the court. So sad.
But i guess another way of looking at it would be that she had already suffered permanent and irreversible brain damage that might (i'm not sure if this is the case for her) have qualified her as "brain dead" as someone mentioned, and hence legally dead for all intents and purposes. If this was indeed the case (which i doubt), then of course it would be legally justifiable to withhold food from a 'dead person'. -
AMD u mean...Originally posted by bismarck:think i am going to sign a DNR soon -
The courts have been held to ransom by the liberal intepretation of the Constitution.Originally posted by cornyfish2000:Terri was starved to death; she was deprived of food on the court's orders whose intention was to let her die of starvation.
I think it is important that we recognise that this is different from the withholding of medical treatment which is practiced in Singapore currently.
In Singapore, a person who has previously signed an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD) would not be resuscitated in the event of a terminal illness. However, an AMD does not entitle the doctor (or anyone for that matter) to kill the patient, whether actively (bolus jab of potassium choride) or passively (starving the patient to death or killing him by depriving him of water). The patient dies a natural death, not one induced by dehydration or starvation as in Terri's case.
Terri's case was euthanasia, and under circumstances where it was not even certain that she herself would have wanted to die.. it was all based on her hubby's claims which, for all we know, could have been influenced to some extent by self-interest. So essentially, she was executed upon the orders of the court. So sad.
But i guess another way of looking at it would be that she had already suffered permanent and irreversible brain damage that might (i'm not sure if this is the case for her) have qualified her as "brain dead" as someone mentioned, and hence legally dead for all intents and purposes. If this was indeed the case (which i doubt), then of course it would be legally justifiable to withhold food from a 'dead person'. -
sometimes we forget the simplest thing in life...........................................God bless her soul...i pray in death she has found peace and freedom from the shell of her body...................