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While on a weight-loss diet, Schiavo took in too little [[potassium (nutrient)|potassium]], resulting in [[brain damage]]. Her condition was diagnosed as a [[persistent vegetative state]]. Her husband and her parents became locked in a lengthy legal battle over whether to keep her alive. Florida Governor [[Jeb Bush]] and his brother [[President Bush]] sided with the parents, who believed their daughter was responsive. Despite a special law passed to prevent her death, courts finally decided to terminate her [[life support]] on March 18, 2005, and she died of starvation and dehydration within two weeks.
While on a weight-loss diet, Schiavo took in too little [[potassium (nutrient)|potassium]], resulting in [[brain damage]]. Her condition was diagnosed as a [[persistent vegetative state]]. Her husband and her parents became locked in a lengthy legal battle over whether to keep her alive. Florida Governor [[Jeb Bush]] and his brother [[President Bush]] sided with the parents, who believed their daughter was responsive. Despite a special law passed to prevent her death, courts finally decided to terminate her [[life support]] on March 18, 2005, and she died of starvation and dehydration within two weeks.
Schiavo was diagnosed by physicians as being brain-damaged after her husband reported that she had collapsed in their home early in the morning. Her husband Michael Schiavo later started a new family with another woman, whom he eventually married after Terri's death, while insisting on retaining legal authority over Terri despite the objections of her parents and siblings.<ref>http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/26/Tampabay/She_s_the_other_woman.shtml]</ref>
==Controversy==
The case struck raw nerves on both sides of the liberal-conservative divide, pitting largely atheistic and materialistic supporters of [[euthanasia]] and "right-to-die" against predominantly religious supporters of "[[right to life]]" and [[human rights]].
was a disabled woman forced to die by dehydration over the objections of her parents, her brother and sister, her church, and millions of Americans.
was a disabled woman forced to die by dehydration over the objections of her parents, her brother and sister, her church, and millions of Americans.
George Felos, an attorney prominent in the right-to-die movement and described by some as "pro-death"<ref>http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/101205TerriSchiavo.html</ref> represented Mr. Schiavo and applied to the Pinellas County-Pasco County Circuit [[probate court]] for the right to remove Terri's feeding tube. A judge ordered her death despite objections by everyone in Terri's own family and several medical professionals.<ref>http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/WolfsonReport.pdf</ref> His order not only required removal of Terri's feeding tube, but ordered the arrest of people who peacefully attempted to give drinking water to Terri rather than let her die of dehydration.<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/mar/05032402.html</ref>
George Felos, an attorney prominent in the right-to-die movement and described by some as "pro-death"<ref>http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/101205TerriSchiavo.html</ref> represented Mr. Schiavo and applied to the Pinellas County-Pasco County Circuit [[probate court]] for the right to remove Terri's feeding tube. A judge ordered her death despite objections by everyone in Terri's own family and several medical professionals.<ref>http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/WolfsonReport.pdf</ref> His order not only required removal of Terri's feeding tube, but ordered the arrest of people who peacefully attempted to give drinking water to Terri rather than let her die of dehydration.<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/mar/05032402.html</ref>