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(回答先: テリさんの『命』 かたずのむ国民 全米の論議呼ぶ尊厳死訴訟 (東京新聞) 投稿者 愚民党 日時 2005 年 3 月 25 日 17:59:45)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/national/31cnd-schiavo.html?hp&ex=1112331600&en=9a3735df723459c0&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Schiavo Dies Nearly Two Weeks After Removal of Feeding Tube
By MARIA NEWMAN
Published: March 31, 2005
Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman who became the subject of an intense legal and political battle that drew responses from the White House to Congress to the Vatican, died today, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed on the order of a state court judge.
Ms. Schiavo, 41, died in the Pinellas Park hospice where she had lived, off and on, for several years, her parents' attorney said. But even as she slipped away, the searing emotions that surrounded her final days remained, following a national debate over whether she should have been reconnected to a tube that provided her with nourishment and hydration.
The lawyer, David Gibbs, said that Ms. Schiavo's brother and sister were with Ms. Schiavo until just before she died.
"While they are heartsick, this is indeed a sad day for the nation, this is a sad day for the family," Mr. Gibbs said. "Their faith in God remains consistent and strong. They believe that Terri is now ultimately at peace with God himself."
As word of her death spread through the crowd outside the hospice, some people sang hymns, others began praying.
The fight between Ms. Schiavo's husband, Michael, to have his wife's feeding tube removed, saying he was fulfilling her wish not to live in a vegetative state, and her parents, who said she could still recover if she was given proper treatment, lasted seven years and made its way from the state courts to the Supreme Court, and back again, several times. It also resulted in a new state law in Florida and an emergency session of the House of Representatives that produced a new federal law signed by President Bush in the early hours of the morning of March 21.
A range of judges consistently sided with Mr. Schiavo, but her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, would not give up, going from court to court and appealing to politicians and to people who believed that removing the tube was tantamount to taking a life.
"Not only has Mrs. Schiavo's case been given due process, but few, if any similar cases have ever been afforded this heightened level of process," Chief Judge Chris Altenbernd, of the Second Court of Appeal in Florida, wrote earlier this month.
The legal fight provoked a great national discussion, with polls showing most people did not believe politicians should be involved in personal issues of one family trying to decide whether a family member should be kept alive. But it also provoked a great outcry among an ad hoc coalition of Catholic and evangelical lobbyists, street organizers and legal advisers, some of whom demonstrated outside the hospice in recent days, and picketed outside the homes of Mr. Schiavo and Judge George W. Greer of Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, who originally ordered the tube removed.
Snippets of a video tape the Schindlers made of their daughter three years ago in which she appears to be smiling, grunting and moaning in response to her mother's voice, and to follow a balloon with her eyes, has become ingrained in the national consciousness after being replayed on news channels over and over again.
Ms. Schiavo was 26 years old when she collapsed in her home one day in 1990. Her heart stopped beating for about 10 minutes before paramedics came, doctors found. She suffered from an undiagnosed potassium deficiency, possibly due to extreme weight loss or even, her husband has said, bulimia. She had gone from over 200 pounds in high school to 110.
Doctors who examined her said she was in a persistent vegetative state. She was awake, but she did not recognize anyone. She could make noises, but she did not speak. She could breathe on her own, but could not feed herself. Doctors have said her brain was incapable of emotion, memory or thought.
In 1992, Mr. Schiavo won a malpractice lawsuit against a doctor who had treated his wife, and in 1998 he went to court to disconnect the feeding tube.
Her parents, who had once been so close to their son-in-law that he even lived with him, began their long legal fight to stop him.
Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida tried to intervene several times, including in October 2003 when he ordered the tube reinserted after the state Legislature passed what was called "Terri's Law." The Florida Supreme Court called the law unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
Her parents, devout Catholics, even attracted the attention of the Vatican. Last year, they filed a motion to set aside the judge's authorization to remove the feeding tube, pointing to Pope John Paul II's statement in the spring that it was wrong to withhold food and water from people in vegetative states.
The Vatican, which typically stays out of local affairs, has recently been pointed about Ms. Schiavo. On March 21, the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said: "Who can judge the dignity and sacredness of the life of a human being, made in the image and likeness of God? Who can decide to pull the plug as if we were talking about a broken or out-of-order household appliance?"
In the past few weeks, the fight between the in-laws, which had stayed mostly in Florida, moved to the national arena, when Congress passed hastily crafted legislation in the early morning hours of March 21 that ordered jurisdiction to be transferred to the federal courts. President Bush was awakened shortly after 1 a.m. that day and, still in his pajamas, signed the legislation.
But their help did not succeed in saving Ms. Schiavo.
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