Stories tagged with: 2003-2006 terri schiavo

• Attorney in Schiavo case authors account of family’s struggle, faulty legal system

  by Gregory Tomlin, posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

  SEMINOLE, Fla. (BP)--“Life itself was on trial,” the attorney who worked to save Terri Schiavo from starvation writes in a new book about the landmark Florida case and the shame it brought upon a nation.

  In “Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us,” David Gibbs, who took the case at the request of Schiavo’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, offers a firsthand account of the family’s emotional struggle to keep their daughter alive, the legal appeals that moved through the Florida courts and the effort to protect Schiavo with state and federal legislation. Read More

• Medical examiner’s Schiavo report deficient, Gibbs writes

  by Gregory Tomlin, posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

  "... There's much more to the story."

  Attorney David Gibbs

  SEMINOLE, Fla. (BP)--The independent medical examiner’s report released nearly three months after the death of Terri Schiavo was supposed to illustrate that the Florida woman was in a persistent vegetative state, but a new book authored by the attorney who represented Schiavo’s parents claims the report produced more questions than answers. Read More

• Terri Schiavo’s parents reflect on the year since her death

  by Joni B. Hannigan, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  Mary Schindler (right) and her daughter, Suzanne Vitadamo, staff the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation in St. Petersburg, Fla. The foundation is committed to telling the story of the life and death of Terri, who was dehydrated to death in March 2005.Photo by Joni B. Hannigan/Florida Baptist Witness

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP)--After years of legal maneuvers, a failed act of Congress and an emotional and highly publicized conflict between her parents and her husband, Terri Schindler Schiavo died March 31, 2005, at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla.

  A year later, the orange fences that kept protestors away from hospice property are a distant memory. The on-site protests represented an unknown number of people across the country who believed that dehydrating to death the brain-damaged 40-year-old woman was immoral, unethical and should be against the law. Read More

• Schiavo battle changed attorney’s view of abortion

  by Joni B. Hannigan, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP)--In her first interview since last year’s controversial dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, Pat Anderson, a longtime attorney in St. Petersburg who worked on the case for more than three years, said she felt like she was “dropped into boiling oil” when she entered the case in 2001 in the midst of an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court. Read More

• Attorney on a mission to tell ‘Untold Story of Terri Schiavo’

  by Joni B. Hannigan, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  SEMINOLE, Fla. (BP)--Attorney David Gibbs III, nearly a year after the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, is telling audiences who will listen about the so-called “right-to-die” case that shook a nation and caused many to look at the way the disabled are treated in America. Read More

• Foundation named for Terri to aid the vulnerable

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP)--Pledging to work on behalf of the disabled, elderly and other vulnerable citizens, against euthanasia, care rationing and medical killing, members of Terri Schiavo’s family have started a foundation to educate the public on guardianship and state laws concerning death by dehydration and starvation. Read More

• Schiavo litigants, judge: Where are they now?

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP)--Terri Schiavo died after a Florida circuit judge, George W. Greer, at the request of her husband, Michael, issued a final judgment on March 18, 2005, in the controversial and highly litigated case. Nutrition and hydration were withheld from Terri Schiavo until she died of marked dehydration 13 days later. George Felos, a prominent "right-to-die" attorney from St. Petersburg, Fla., represented Michael Schiavo in the case. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Terri Schiavo: The case that became a cause

  by Joni B. Hannigan, posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (18 years ago)

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Dripping with humidity and exhaustion, I sat under the full sun in front of Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., for nearly 13 days in March 2005. My assignment had become one of waiting and watching for the right thing to happen. I waited in vain. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Have we learned anything from Schiavo's death?

  by R. Albert Mohler Jr., posted Friday, March 31, 2006 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Today, March 31, 2006, marks the one-year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death by starvation. All too quickly, Terri's name and cause disappeared from the national awareness as our attention-deficit culture moved on to other issues and other concerns. Read More

• End-of-life decisions: ‘The key is communication’

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, January 13, 2006 (18 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Americans’ interest in living wills has soared since they observed the circumstances of Terri Schiavo’s tragic demise, but any hope such documents are a panacea for the thorny questions of care for the incapacitated or those near the end of life apparently is misplaced. Read More