Terri Schindler-Schiavo Case Study

In reviewing the details of this case, Terri Schindler-Schiavo had suffered massive brain damage due to lack of oxygen to her brain and was left comatose. After two and a half months without improvement, her diagnosis was changed to that of a persistent vegetative state. For the next two years doctors attempted speech and physical therapy and other experimental therapy, hoping to return her to a state of awareness, without success. She required a feeding tube for sustenance. She was physically stable and received no life support or respiration .Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery, and elected to have her feeding tube discontinued. Terry had no
He remained legally married to her while living with another wife with two children and refuses to divorce Terri and surrender her guardianship to the Schindlers.
Liberty is a condition in which a man’s will regard his own person and property is unopposed by any other will. Here, since she did not have a living will, it was based on what the husband said who her legal guardian was. The Florida guardianship was clear, and the law was followed. The judiciary was charged with 2 questions: 1) what was Terri Schiavo's medical condition? 2) In such a condition, what would she choose to do? And this is what her husband and the Florida legislature upheld.
Lastly, the actions of her husband are suspect granted that it is not what is being adjudicated, but I can certainly see how her parents will question his motives. Nevertheless, the law was followed and upheld and based on this, I would not call it judicial homicide, but personally, I believe in the sanctity of life and would have preferred the outcome of sustaining her with the feeding