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Terri Schiavo case. The Terri Schiavo case was a right-to-die legal case in the United States from 1990 to 2005, involving Theresa Marie Terri Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. In 2005, after a protracted Somelegal battle, Terri Schiavo, who. had spent fteen years in a permanent vegetative state, was disconnected from life suppo rt and subsequently died. The question at the center of the erce and public debate. over her fate—and conceptsthe overarching question students will. tinue life support for Terri Schiavo was justi ed or not. The attempt to answer this question will lead students to. explore the profound ethical and philosophical implications. of this case, while at the same time enhancing their critical. In the early morning of February 25, 1990, Terri Schiavo collapsed in a hallway of her St. Petersburg, Florida apartment. Firefighters and paramedics, arriving in response to her husband Michael's 9-1-1 call, found her face-down and unconscious. At the age of 26, Terri experienced a still unexplained collapse while at home alone with Michael Schiavo, who subsequently became her guardian. After a short period of time, Michael lost interest in caring for his brain injured, but otherwise healthy, young wife. Terri Schiavo is seen here in a family photo taken shortly after she collapsed in 1990 and was left brain-damaged. In 1985, they moved to Florida, following Terri's parents, who retired there. Five years later, Michael found his wife unconscious on the floor, her head in the hallway, her feet in the bathroom. Terri’s parents and siblings, supported by hundreds of thousands who witnessed to Terri’s right to life in the years before her court-ordered death, created the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network to serve medically vulnerable persons at risk of being marginalized rather than supported in love. On February 25, 1990, Terri Schiavo collapsed at her Florida home from what doctors said was a potassium imbalance. After she collapsed, her brain did not receive oxygen for about five minutes. The oxygen deprivation caused severe brain damage. Since its founding in 2005, the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network has advocated and assisted more than 2,500 medically vulnerable patients and families. Thursday, April 14, 2005. It seems that the romantic first meeting place of Florida's most famous common-law couple was at the local dentist's office. Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze may have met before the fateful night of February 25, 1990 when Terri Schiavo collapsed under mysterious circumstances. A scene, complete with soothing background music and posters of dental implants, seems an unlikely place for budding romance.
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