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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...
Meanwhile, expect the new court battle to be drawn out. Michael is challenging the constitutionality of actions by Bush and the legislature countermanding a court ruling just days earlier that Terri's feeding tube should be removed. Legal scholars predict the reinsertion order will be overturned as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Michael's lawyers say they hope to have the state supreme court do just that in a few weeks. Their opponents would probably appeal it first to Florida's district court of appeals, say sources familiar with the case. The reason: Bush and the Christian...
...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...