Italy’s Terri Schiavo Case
From Time Magazine:
The questions that drove the Terri Schiavo debate were universal: life and death; man, God and science. But the battle to remove Schiavo’s feeding tube after 15 years in a vegetative state — her husband Michael made that decision against the wishes of Schiavo’s deeply religious parents — was also a uniquely American drama of fiery Florida preachers, New York talk show hosts and Washington judges and politicians.
Now Italy is embroiled in its own version of the Schiavo saga after a judicial panel ruled in favor of a father who wants to cut off life-support to his daughter, who has been in a coma since suffering irreversible brain damage in a 1992 car accident when she was 20. Though there is no intra-family battle over Eluana Englaro’s fate, the case contains the same mix of legal appeals, religious activism and philosophical ponderings. Local newspapers have been filled in recent days with smiling photographs of the now comatose patient before the car crash, and details of her current condition: she breathes on her own, and opens her eyes each morning, but is unconscious and immobile.
Read the rest of the report at Time.
Filed under: Euthanasia, Terri Schiavo | Closed
Tags: Add new tag, Euthanasia, Terri Schiavo
