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...favor of allowing death because they understand there is no point in living in this state." There is a difference, though. Vincent Humbert expressed a clear will to die. He dictated an acclaimed book, I Ask the Right to Die, by using small movements of one thumb. Terri Schiavo has given no such indication, according to her parents, though her husband claims she would want to be allowed to die. Still, says Cohen, "if there is no change in the state of a person for 15 years, enough is enough. You have...
...Terri Schiavo's private tragedy has become a political issue in the U.S. estranges many people in Europe. But Europeans, too, have struggled to find the proper balance between the right to life and the right to die. In 1974, Dutch mother-to-be Ineke Stinissen fell into a deep coma after problems with the anesthetic administered during her caesarean section. A year later, her husband Gerard asked that her feeding tube be removed, seeing no hope of her regaining consciousness. Stinissen's doctors refused on ethical grounds. Amid impassioned public debate, Gerard fought for his wife's right...
...case is stuck in the appeals process. For an inmate on death row, due process allows for a court review that looks at old and new facts to ensure that an innocent person is not executed. Executions are routinely delayed as a result of the extensive appeals process. Terri Schiavo deserves at least as many rights as a person convicted of capital murder...
Last Friday, the feeding tube sustaining Terri Schiavo was removed, and doctors predict that she will die within the next week if it is not re-inserted. Schiavo has used a feeding tube for sustenance since 1990, when a heart attack left her unable to care for herself. Since then, Schiavo’s husband, her legal guardian, has campaigned to have her feeding tube removed, claiming that Schiavo had previously told him that she would not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Her parents, who are devout Catholics, refuse to give up hope that their daughter...
...push a case into litigation when not dealt with early on. If skilled professionals can mediate the issues early on, however, family members can come to accept medical facts and agree on what they believe the patient would have wanted. And that, after all, is the issue: not what Terri Schiavo’s parents want; not what Michael Schiavo wants; but what Terri Schiavo told her husband long ago what she wanted. Families must learn, and hundreds do each day, to put aside their disagreements about end-of-life care and focus on that central inquiry...