Terry Schiavo Shortly after having a heart attack that left her incapacitated
Terri Schiavo passes away
Death comes after courts repeatedly ruled against parents
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 10:21 a.m. ET March 31, 2005
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Nearly two weeks after a court ordered her feeding tube removed, and after multiple attempts by her parents to get the order lifted, Terri Schiavo passed away on Thursday at the age of 41.
Schiavo died at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lay for years while her husband and her parents fought over her fate in the nation’s longest, most bitter right-to-die dispute.
The family battle over whether to keep her alive galvanized the nation over the last month, with even President Bush and Congress weighing in.
The case had spent seven years winding its way through the courts, with Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, repeatedly on the losing end.
They have been at odds with their son-in-law, Michael Schiavo, who consistently won legal battles by arguing that his wife would not have wanted to live in her condition.
Denied accessBrother Paul O’Donnell, an adviser to Schiavo’s parents, said the parents and their two other children “were denied access at the moment of her death. They’ve been requesting, as you know, for the last hour to try to be in there and they were denied access by Michael Schiavo. They are in there now, praying at her bedside.”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to intervene for the sixth time. Hours earlier in an 9-2 ruling, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined to grant a new hearing in the case — the fourth time since last week that it ruled against the Schindlers.
We can all sit here and judge Terry's Husband or her parents that is the easiest part. Instead let us learn from her passing and the struggles that both sides of her family indured. Let us Thank god for the life we are granted, and pray for the soul of Terry, Her Husband and her parents.
Nuff said....
Larry
1 comment:
This is one of those cases where we stand by and watch and wonder and pray but have no say either way and have no right to. I don't know how the first few days after Terri's heart attack went and without knowing that it is hard to say what I think should have happened then. If she couldn't eat then and never was able to then why keep her alive. I think it may have been a little selfish for the parents to try to keep her alive even though she has no knowledge at that point of what is really going on. If she obviously has no quality of life is it right to make her stay alive. Is it right to make her die. Hard decisions that a court had to make. I think it probably turned out ok. I am curious if Terri is with the Lord or not. As well as what her family and husband believes. It is indifferent to the decision that was made here on earth but it is not to the one that will be made at the day of judgement. We do need to pray for those people not only for there salvation but for there grieving as they all lost a loved one years ago and couldn't really say good bye until now.
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