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...Schindlers' fight to keep their unconscious daughter Terri Schiavo on a feeding tube [Oct. 27] demonstrates how you can bring up a child only to discover that if she becomes seriously ill, you could have virtually no rights over her care. This is because if the child is married, you, the parents, aren't legally the next of kin. In the Schiavo case, who could possibly stand by while their offspring is starved and dehydrated because of the decisions of a spouse who has, rightfully or not, gone on with his life? The Schindlers are doing what they have...
Could the infamously acrimonious case of Terri Schiavo have been avoided? Thirteen years ago, the Florida woman went into cardiac arrest and lapsed into what some doctors have described as a vegetative state. For the past six years her husband Michael has been battling her parents for the right to remove her feeding tube and allow her to die. Michael Schiavo says he knows this is what his wife would have wanted. Her parents object because they say she is still showing signs of awareness. On Oct. 15 an appeals court sided with him, and the feeding tube was removed...
Legal experts agree that much--if not all--of the tragic and costly legal wrangling could have been avoided if Terri Schiavo had written a living will and named a health-care proxy. "There's no question about it," says New York City estate-planning attorney Gideon Rothschild. "The person she named [as her proxy] would have had exclusive rights to make health-care decisions...
After the Florida legislature thrust itself last week into the debate over whether Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die, by authorizing Governor Jeb Bush to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, the acrimonious battle entered a new and possibly protracted round in the courts. But in the court of public opinion, at least, the finger-pointing over what led to Terri's 1990 collapse at age 26 could get nastier. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (who want her kept alive), have suggested that her husband Michael Schiavo (who insists she would not have wanted to live...
...agonizing case of Terri Schiavo has revived the RIGHT-TO-DIE debate. In a 1990 story (featuring Christine Busalacchi and her father on the cover), TIME explored how families cope...