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Terry Schaivo has died
« on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:03am »

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I hope now that she is at peace. I have gone back and forth in my opinion on this case so many times, and I hope that the autopsy will answer my questions.

One thing I will say is that I am disgusted with her husband's behavior in her last moments. I realize that he may have legitimate reason to distrust her parents, but I am appalled that he would not allow a mother to be with her daughter when she died. It would have cost him nothing. That is just spiteful and vindictive. He had a moment to be the bigger person and he blew it.

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #1 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:07am »

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Schiavo Dead
Thursday, March 31, 2005
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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman kept alive by a feeding tube for 15 years during an epic legal and medical battle, has died, her husband's attorney said Thursday.

Brother Paul O'Donnell, the family's spiritual advisor told reporters Schiavo's parents were denied the chance to be at their daughter's bedside by Schaivo's husband Michael, at the time she died. Schaivo says they are now in her room praying.

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« Reply #2 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:07am »

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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

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #3 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:07am »

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I agree dixie....that was extremely vindictive. May she rest in peace

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #4 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:08am »

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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.

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #5 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 9:44am »

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This has been a no win situation for all of them. From where I see it, all of them were spiteful to each other. This is sad they could not come to a middle ground. Instead the parents and Michael will feel disgust and hatred for each other forever.

Yesterday I read the article in Newsweek about her and the brain and what her chances for any kind recovery. She had none.

What should come from this, is all young women should learn that to abuse your body in the form of bulemia and trying to
be slim causes this kind of horror to happen to one's body.

Girls, Women, be happy within your ownself
with who you are and how you look!

For Terri, may you rest in peace!

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #6 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 11:15am »

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May she rest in peace.

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #7 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 12:07pm »

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As Terri's legal guardian and husband, Michael had the right to be with her when she passed, and given the contentious behavior of Terri's family, they never shared visiting times. Nobody could forecast the exact moment of her death. Terry deserved to pass in peace without the kind of drama that has surrounded them all. Rest in peace, Terri

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #8 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 2:44pm »

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Rest in Peace Terri.

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Re: Terri Schaivo has died
« Reply #9 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 8:05pm »

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Rest in peace Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo and the Schindle r family.

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Re: Terri Schaivo has died
« Reply #10 on: Mar 31^st, 2005, 8:06pm »

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Rest in peace Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo and the Schindler family.

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #11 on: Apr 1^st, 2005, 5:41am »

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RIP!!

This incident showed how stupid and stubborn and evil people can be. Roll Eyes

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #12 on: Apr 1^st, 2005, 5:19pm »

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I don't understand the statement that Michael wouldn't let the family be with Terri when she died. The siblings were with her when the nurse woke Michael and told him that Terri's death was imminent, and did he want to be with her. When he entered her room, the brother and sister left. She died several minutes later. Her parents were not with her, because they were on their way to the hospital, along with the priest. When they arrived, Michael left the room to give them privacy, and told them if they wanted anything from the room to take it.
It seems like the press were given the idea of a different story, and ran with it. Kind of a one sided story. This version was given by members of the staff at the hospice.
I hope that after the autopsy, things will settle down.

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #13 on: Apr 1^st, 2005, 6:57pm »

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I heard this same thing, MUM. Oh, the press Undecided

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Re: Terry Schaivo has died
« Reply #14 on: Apr 1^st, 2005, 7:21pm »

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There have been so many wild accusations, I wonder if any of them are true......and the worst ones come from the family side. Some fault Michael for daring to start a new life when he finally realized that Terri wasn't going to come back. At first I was a little shocked, myself....but he was a young man, and human enough to still want to live. I keep thinking his detractors would only be happy if he was buried with Terri....or burned on a funeral pyre.

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