Word: schiavos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sweetheart. Hi, hi, it's mommy," says Mary Schindler to her daughter in a video available on the Internet. Terri Schiavo, 39, who hasn't been fully conscious for 13 years, gazes in her mother's direction from her hospital bed, and her expression blooms from slack-jawed passivity to beatific smile. She seems happy, comforted, aware--at least those are the interpretations the naive viewer would be inclined to apply. There are other brief videos on terrisfight.org In one, Schiavo seems to follow the movements of a balloon with her eyes; in another, she appears to comply with...
...patch of grass outside Hospice House Woodside in Pinellas Park, Fla., where Schiavo lies abed, about 30 people stood vigil last Thursday. They were protesting the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube the day before, an action sought by her husband Michael and approved by a Florida Circuit Court judge but bitterly opposed by Terri's parents Mary and Bob Schindler. Striding among them like a pep-rally leader was the nattily dressed Randall Terry, the prominent right-to-life advocate. "I'm here because the Schindlers asked me to be here," he declared. "This woman is being murdered...
...medicine and political grandstanding all come together in the tragic saga of Terri Schiavo, perhaps the most acrimonious end-of-life case to date. Decisions to remove feeding tubes or respirators from patients with no hope of recovery are daily events in hospitals. They are seen as a matter of established law, backed by such famous precedents as the 1976 Karen Ann Quinlan decision, in which parents were given permission to withdraw a respirator from their vegetative 21-year-old daughter, and the 1990 Nancy Cruzan case, in which the parents of an unconscious 33-year-old were allowed...
...treated lightly. Hospital ethics committees confer with family members to establish proof of a patient's wishes. "Overwhelmingly, these cases are decided by consensus," says Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of the division of medical ethics at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. "What's so tragic here [in Schiavo's case] is that you have a family divided against itself...
Perhaps most interesting is the case of Mary Lou Schiavo ’76, who achieved further Glamour fame after taking home two more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared...