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In 2005, after a protracted legal battle, Terri was disconnected from life support and subsequently died. The question at the center of the fierce, public debate over her fate—and the question students will try to answer in this unit—is whether the decision to discontinue life support for Terri Schiavo was justified.
This essay reviews a range of issues arising from the complex case of Terri Schiavo and the lessons the case raises for bioethicists. It argues that embedded in the case is a broader controversy than is immediately evident, one involving the definitions by which bioethics judge cases of extreme physical and psychological limits, in its ...
Mar 31, 2015 · People associated with the aid-in-dying movement today say that the Terri Schiavo case was a turning point for Americans thinking about their own end-of-life decisions. While Schiavo’s...
Mar 31, 2016 · March 31, 2016 / 11:51 AM EDT / CBS News. HO/Getty Images. In 1990, 26-year-old Terri Schiavo fell into a persistent vegetative state after suffering cardiac arrest. A fierce highly public...
Mar 25, 2005 · The dispute over the life of Terri Schiavo has raised a series of difficult ethical questions about the proper diagnosis and treatment of people with severely incapacitating injuries or...
Apr 26, 2005 · A death in the family: Reflections on the Terri Schiavo case. Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old Florida woman who was in a persistent vegetative state for the 15 years before her death on Mar. 31, 2005, was at the centre of a political, legal and media tempest over the removal of a feeding tube. Hyperbole has run high on both sides of the controversy.
Mar 24, 2005 · MIAMI – The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of a petition forcing the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tubes, a decision that protects the severely brain-damaged woman’s right to withdraw her own life-sustaining treatment and prevents politicians from interfering with intensely pe...
