For months now, the Schindler and Schiavo families, who are the parents and husband of Terri, have been fighting over how to handle Terri's care. She has been on life support for over a decade. However, without a living will, Terri's fate is undecided. Her husband, Mark, states that her dying wish was not have any external means of continuing life, such as a feeding tube or respirator. Her parents argue that is not the …
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…the Florida federal court not to be bound by any prior state court actions concerning Terri. If anything is to be learned from this case, it is that writing a living will is paramount. If Terri had just done so, it may have prevented one of the most abusive forms of congressional misuse in our country's history. Also, and would have saved a woman and her family from an immense amount of suffering and pain.