Terri Schiavo Case

MILLERSBURG — A Millersburg woman last week denied criminal charges she wrote $150,000 in checks to herself from a business that employed her as a bookkeeper.

Here in the United States, the topic of assisted suicide as long being discussed and disputed many times especially when there is a high profile case in the news. According to (Sanburn, J 2015) throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Death with Dignity National Center kept an office in Washington, D.C. For years, Republican lawmakers tried to pass legislation nullifying Oregon’s 1997 Death with Dignity Act, which allowed terminally ill patients to obtain life-ending medication. The legislation never made it out of the Senate, but it eventually passed in the Republican-controlled House, and the aid-in-dying organization felt compelled to keep pressure on Congress to stop the bill. Then came Terri Schiavo.

Medical records show that bones in his face were broken and he choked on his own blood.[5] The coroner concluded that compression of the thorax made it impossible for Thomas to breathe normally and deprived his brain of oxygen.[6] His parents removed him from life support five days later,

She died a few months later after doctors believed her treatments to be a success despite Lacks complaints of pain. During, this era doctors believed they always knew best and her complaints were ignored until it was too late and her cancer spread to her entire

1.1 Facts of the case On April 5th, 2015 Stephanie Scott was murdered by Vincent Stanford at lepton high school, where Stephanie was working at the time. The reason she stayed late at school that day was because she intended to plan her drama classes for when she would be on her honeymoon. Vincent began stalking women in and around the community of Leeton, taking thousands of photographs and notes on their movements in order to understand when they would be alone.

The University of Texas at Austin is a world renown school with an acceptance rate of 40.2% as of 2013. Abigail Fisher, a white woman from Texas, sued the University of Texas for racial discrimination in the university’s admission program. Ms. Fisher lost her district court case and the Fifth Circuit Case three to zero; but the Supreme Court accepted her appeal for another trial. Due to Ms. Fisher not being able to attend The University of Texas, she was accepted into Louisiana State University shortly after. At LSU, she filed the lawsuit against the University of Texas to prohibit the university to use race as a factor in the future admission process.

Facts: Abigail Fisher (Plaintiff) is a Caucasian woman that was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin (UT - Austin) for the fall of 2008. Fisher did not graduate in the top ten percent of her class; therefore, she was not automatically accepted to the University under the Top Ten Percent Plan. Instead, Fisher’s application was evaluated under the Holistic Review Program. The Holistic Review Program evaluates candidates based on their Personal Achievement Index, which looks at: (1) the mean score of candidates’ application essays; and (2) the candidates’ Personal Achievement Score, which is calculated through a holistic review of the applicant’s personal life, activities and leadership, accolades, and mitigates “special circumstances, such as the applicant’s socioeconomic status. . . and race.”

Compare the situations surrounding Diane and Debbie in terms of the physicians’ actions and morality surrounding those actions leading to their deaths. How are the cases similar? How are they different? What was the situation surrounding Terri Schiavo? How does her situation compare to the Diane and Debbie cases? What are the major ethical issues involved in each of these three cases? How are their cases similar? What are the ethically relevant, salient differences between them? What do you personally take away as the “moral of the story” for these three cases?

The fight between Mr. Schiavo and the Schindler family began in 1993 which is three years after Terri’s diagnoses. The fight continued between the parents and husband, Terri’s feeding tube was removed in 2001, put back in, removed again in 2003 and a third time on March 18, 2005 (Quill, 2005). Congress then passed an “emergency measure” that was signed by the president in an effort to force federal courts to review this case and create a legal mandate for her feeding tube to be reinserted yet again (Quill, 2005). The district court of Florida denied the emergency request and this decision was upheld on appeal, multiple appeals were denied and Ms. Schiavo died March 31, 2005 (Quill, 2005). Therefore, Terri was on a ventilator in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.

The hashtag that took over social media. Many African-American students took to twitter to deliver their responses to Abigail Fisher, and the late Justice Antonin Scalia. With responses such as “How you gon' hate from outside the school? You can't even get in! #StayMadAbby #BlackTexasEx” and “I earned this degree through blood, sweat, white fundamentalist evangelical supremacy, and tears #StayMadAbby” The case known as Fisher v. University of Texas, is to be decided on whether the University of Texas acted fairly against the young woman, and potentially many other individuals. With the suit still impending in the Supreme Court, many awaits the end result of the case.

In the year of 1990 on February 25, a presumably healthy young women by the name of Theresa Marie Schiavo better known as Terri suffered a massive heart attack in her Florida home which left her with serve brain damage. At the age of 26 she found herself unable to speak, or move, and unfortunately without a living will in place. How can she have told them what she really wanted if unable to talk in a vegetative state? Terri, although able to breathe on her own, found herself unable to eat or use the bathroom without the aid of a machine or person she was literally a prisoner in her own body. By law her husband Michael Schiavo was in charge of making treatment decisions for her , and after two years of therapy he wanted to disconnect the feeding tubes that helped keep her alive.

whatsoever. Even when she arrived at the hospital, the doctors were no help. She survived her

Her parents then found out her chance of survival was 30% and as shocked and discourage her parents were they then found out that she could have been paralyzed.

They were the subjects of public disputes with family members, court systems, medical professionals, the media, and society at large. Terri Schiavo, Nancy Cruzan and Karen Ann Quinlan; their names are synonymous with permanent vegetative state (PVS). The amazing technological advancements in modern medicine has been credited with keeping persons alive who in times past would have died, therefore this is remarkable for countless families. In the cases of the Quinlan’s, the Cruzan’s and many like them, families members find it unbearable to witness loved ones who linger indefinitely in PVS with little or no chance for recovery. There are many like Terri Schiavo’s parents, who value the lives of their love ones no matter how limited their

She died at the age of 33, as a result of her extreme fasting, she lost the use of her legs and could neither eat nor swallow water. She suffered from a stroke shortly after