TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The case of Terri Schiavo captured the attention of the nation and the world in the early 2000s.
In 1990, a heart attack left the 26-year-old woman in what doctors described as a “persistent vegetative state.”
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There was a legal battle between her husband who wanted her to be removed from life support machines to preserve her dignity and her parents who said she was responsive to them and they wanted her to live.
She passed away in a Pinellas Park Hospice in 2005, after a feeding tube was removed following a court order to allow it…