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Terri Schiavo dies 14 days after the state of Florida removed her feeding tube

Terri Schiavo dies

Death comes after courts repeatedly ruled against parents

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- Fourteen days after a court ordered her feeding tube removed, and after multiple attempts by her parents to get the order lifted, Terri Schiavo passed away on Thursday.

The family battle over whether to keep her alive galvanized the nation.

The case had spent seven years winding its way through the courts, with the parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, repeatedly on the losing end.

The nation’s high court on Wednesday declined to intervene for the sixth time. Hours earlier in an 9-2 ruling, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined to grant a new hearing in the case — the fourth time since last week that it ruled against the Schindlers.


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Posted by Editor at March 31, 2005 10:23 AM