Terri Schiavo died 10 years ago today — not long after her feeding tube was removed by order of a Florida judge acting at the request of Schiavo's husband that ...
In early 2005, the story of Terri Schiavo dominated the news. The Florida woman had been in a vegetative state for 15 years. Her husband had petitioned, again, ...
Ten years after the death of Terri Schiavo I can still picture the green grass in front of Woodside Hospice where she died. I still have in my mind's eye the ...
It's telling that a Republican Party that broke every rule to keep Terri Schiavo alive fifteen years ago now includes voices pleased to accept the mass death of ...
Forty-five percent of U.S. adults say they have a living will, up from 40% in 2005. Americans remain supportive of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
Terry Schiavo, in a persistent vegetative state, died eleven years ago today on March 31, 2005 when her feeding tube was removed after a long legal battle.
What began as one family's bitter split over painful end-of-life decisions and grew into an unprecedented political battle that reached Congress, the White House ...
Vincent Lambert was left in a vegetative state after a 2008 car accident. His family is split over removing life support, and his case has attracted intense attention ...
March 31, 2005 -- -- Terri Schiavo, the woman at the center of a nationwide debate over right-to-die decisions, died today at a Florida hospice following the ...
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state since 1990, died 14 days after removal of her feeding tube.
Theresa Maria Schindler should be in her 56th year of life. Instead, her cremated remains are buried at Sylvan Abby Memorial Park in Clearwater, Florida.
The usual media suspects are excoriating Jeb Bush —again—for trying to help save my sister Terri Schiav o's life. An article last month in the Tampa Bay Times, ...
Terri Schiavo. Her name — my sister's name — is seared into the national memory as a face of the right-to-life movement, but it's now been more than a decade ...
MAYBE YOU know the feeling - that you're about to see or hear something that's really someone else's private business, and it makes you embarrassed and ...
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Saying the plight of Terri Schiavo "transcends politics," the Rev. Jesse Jackson lent his support yesterday to her parents and earned ...
Judge George Greer has no regrets about his role in the Terri Schiavo case. But he does have some advice for how you should handle end-of-life decisions.
In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court struck down a law quickly passed to keep a brain-damaged woman on a feeding tube despite her ...
In a medical case that has been compared to American Terri Schiavo, a French court on Monday ordered that nutrition and hydration continue to be provided for ...
What happened to Terri Schiavo? Schiavo was 26 years old in 1990 when she had a heart attack caused by a potassium imbalance, possibly brought on by an ...
March 27, 2006 — -- Although Terri Schiavo was laid to rest a year ago Friday after the longest right-to-die battle in American history, the war between her family, ...
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - A federal appeals court rejected another plea by the parents of Terri Schiavo to have her feeding tube reinserted yesterday, with one ...
The recent case of a 29 year old woman with brain cancer has again raised questions about the right to die. Americans are divided on whether doctors should ...
An autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman whose death sparked an intense debate over a person's right-to-die, showed that her brain ...
Last week — on a day when Florida posted its second highest COVID-19 death toll (61 in 24 hours); when total deaths in the state verged on breaking into ...
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was on the verge of major mainstream musical success when she was shot and killed in 1995. We remember Selena's life today as ...
The crudest animated show about a bunch of kids comes to HBO Max on Wednesday. To celebrate, we ran through our favorite episodes, from "Fishsticks" to ...
The family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery is encountering difficulty in obtaining two surgeries that she needs…
As the coronavirus death toll escalates, people confronting their own mortality are flooding lawyers with requests to prepare wills and end-of-life plans.
The parents of SungEun Grace Lee, who is fully conscious but paralyzed from the neck down and unable to speak, are using a 24-second video as proof that ...
Seventy-three percent of Americans say a doctor should be allowed to end the life of a terminally ill patient by painless means if the patient requests it -- in line ...
Categories: Letters to the Editor, Opinion. Assisted suicide laws do more harm. On Nov. 9, The Daily Gazette carried an article on suicide prevention that stated ...
In the end, Terri Schiavo's bitterly divided family couldn't even agree on what she looked like as she slowly died. Late last week her loved ones visited her ...
Incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky of Evanston faces a challenge from Republican Sargis Sangari of Skokie, head of a think tank on Middle Eastern affairs, ...
She was a truly beautiful woman: Slender, button-nosed, with a wide and vivacious smile and dancing, sea-green eyes. That's the image we'll remember of ...
ROME — The woman at the center of a right-to-die battle gripping Italy died Monday in a private clinic, ending a case that divided the nation and ignited a debate ...
PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 31 - Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman who became the subject of an intense legal and political battle that ...
Removal of the Missouri woman's feeding tube 25 years ago ended a right-to-die case that transfixed America and changed the way we talk about life support, ...
March 19, 2005 — -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said that he and other Republican members of Congress would continue to work through the weekend ...
His skin is still warm to the touch. His heart continues to beat. But 16-year-old Titus Cromer Jr. is dead, doctors at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak told his family.
Liberal pundit Rachel Maddow of MSNBC touched upon a subject last night that I've addressed previously on this blog. Here's my updated take on the matter: ...
Victims lined up on Tuesday to face Joseph DeAngelo during the first of four days of hearings in a Sacramento courtroom before he is formally sentenced.
Like all of the other guys on the stage last night at Fox News' Republican presidential candidate debate, former Florida governor Jeb Bush loudly and proudly ...
I first started listening to the podcast “You're Wrong About,” a cultural-history show hosted by the journalists Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, because of a ...
This week, lobbyists for euthanasia appeared to be winning people over to their way of thinking. The 71-year-old physicist Stephen Hawking gave an interview ...
We spend too many hours in front of our screens — and not enough hours out in our community. After graduating from law school at Florida State, I got hired by a ...
Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 91st day of 2020. There are 275 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a ...
Hearst Texas Newspapers interviewed more than two dozen Texas women from across the political spectrum to hear what they think of Trump's trial, and what it ...
Oct. 22, 2007 — -- In a moving, pointed and rare response to a question about the Terri Schiavo controversy, former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee Monday ...
Full disclosure: I am very close with the Schindler family. (Terri's siblings and mother. Her father Bob died last year, his health destroyed by grief over what ...
President Bush President Bush said today that he joins the millions of Americans saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo. "The essence of civilization is that the ...
Eliot Engel, the longtime Democratic congressman from the Bronx, is in the news because he has a tough primary: He may be upended tomorrow. To read a ...
In the recent podcast, “Michael Egnor on Whether People in Comas Can Think,” Robert J. Marks raised an interesting point with Egnor: Can people in comas ...
Many liberals and progressives with whom I agree on many questions support the Death with Dignity idea. They make two broad arguments. The first is an ...
Michael Schiavo was the husband of Terri Schiavo, the brain-dead woman from the Tampa Bay area who ended up at the center of one of the most contentious, ...
How can you truly know when someone is dead? Historically, death was determined by holding a mirror up to a person's mouth to see if they were breathing.
It's an issue that has been widely debated in politics, ethics and medicine, but Dominic Wilkinson says the only opinion on someone's right to die that counts is ...
Good morning, it's Tuesday, March 31, the 91st day of 2020. There are 275 days left in the year. We'll start the day in the mid-50s and we're expecting highs this ...
The mother of a severely brain-damaged woman made an emotional plea Monday to be allowed to take her daughter home from a hospice "and care for her the ...
A majority of Americans continue to say a doctor should be allowed to end a patient's life by painless means if the patient requests it. Views are more divided, ...
Euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is when action is taken to end the life of a person who is experiencing long-term illness. Euthanasia is against the law ...
It's uncommon for judges to speak publicly about their hardest cases, the ones that tested their impartiality and independence and exerted an emotional toll.
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that a spouse in California is the presumptive healthcare decision maker when the partner is in a persistent vegetative state.
Podcasts are perfect for the pandemic, a time when many people are looking for *fresh* entertainment or even just the chance to hear new voices speak. Some of ...
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he pro-life movement opposes state-sanctioned interventions that permit the killing of innocent human beings precisely because ...
In this excerpt from his book "Idiot America," Esquire's politics writer Charles P. Pierce looks back at the Terri Shiavo case, featuring important cameos by ...
Jeb Bush has complained about “the narratives” that paint him as a moderate Republican, insisting (truthfully) that he's in fact very conservative. In the effort to ...
