Case Study On Terri Shiavo

Terri Schiavo, also known as Theresa Marie Schindler, was a woman who entered a vegetative state in 1990. The case was brought up over 20 times throughout Florida courts. Most all of her doctors firmly expressed they believe in no possibility of revival. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, also expressed that she would not want to be kept alive. All cases ruled that Michael was in control of Terri, repeating marriage. The parents thoroughly disagreed with this, believing their was hope in revival, although doctors had stated their was no hope. Her feeding tube was removed on the 18th of March in 2005. After the death, they performed an autopsy. By doing this, they discovered that her brain weighed half of a normal human brain. She was also not able
She was Catholic and very religious. These are some of the reasons her parents held onto to justify keeping her alive for a chance she would come back. Going deeper into her husbands thoughts, he thought she would not want to be kept alive and not want to artificially live. He believed she would not want to suffer anymore, so he figured he would carry out her wishes, but as I talked about before, this contradicted her parents thoughts. This went on for a while. Although every court case ruled it was in her husband's hands, he did not want to go against the parent of Terri. Let's go back to how this all started. One day Michael came home and went into Terri's room and she fell over, unresponsive. He called 911 and she was rushed to the hospital. They attempted defibrillation 7 times, and discovered she was in full cardiac arrest. She stayed in the hospital in a coma for three months. When she got out of her coma, she was in a mostly unresponsive state, which she would continue to be in for the next 15 years. Some common people and doctors have refers to Terri's situation as “living eyes in a dead body,” which pretty much means she could see what was going on but she could not response or do anything about