This year marks the 21st anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered death by dehydration. On March 18, 2005, Florida Judge George W. Greer ordered the removal of Terri’s feeding tube, leading to her agonizing death from starvation and dehydration that lasted nearly two weeks.
For each of those thirteen days, the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network will commemorate the final, horrific days of Terri’s inhumane passing. This remembrance serves not only to honor Terri Schiavo, but also to raise awareness about the countless individuals currently experiencing slow, tragic deaths in hospices, nursing homes, and hospitals across the United States and around the world.
Jesse Jackson, in Florida, Lends Support to Terri Schiavo
Published: 3/29/2005
(Baptist Press) – Calling the Terri Schiavo situation “one of the most profound moral and ethical issues of our time,” civil rights leader Jesse Jackson prayed with her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and their family March 29 while spending a few hours outside the hospice where the disabled Florida woman is in her 12th day of a court-ordered starvation.
And in a development the afternoon of March 29 at the hospice, Thaddeus Malanowski emerged from the Pinellas Park facility and said he had been told he may not administer communion to Terri — and was threatened with arrest if he proceeds to administer the sacrament. CONTINUE
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