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American Families Grapple with Decisions on Death
By Jane Sutton
Mon Mar 14, 2005 08:05 AM ET
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Religious Services for Terri Schiavo
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WARMINSTER, Pa. (AP) _Mar. 14, 2005 — Religious services are being held this morning in suburban Philadelphia on behalf of a Florida woman at the center of a contentious right-to-die case.
Roman Catholic priests will lead prayers at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster for graduate Terri Schiavo, the Huntingdon Valley native at the center of a legal battle over whether to remove feeding tubes that have kept her alive for 15 years.
Some are trying to prevent Friday's court-ordered removal of the tubes. Bob and Mary Schindler doubt their daughter had end-of-life wishes and have fought their son-in-law in court for nearly seven years. They dispute that she is in a vegetative state, saying she laughs, cries, interacts with them and tries to speak.
Doctors say Schiavo, who graduated from Archbishop Wood in 1981, is in a persistent vegetative state. They say any movements or sounds she makes are coincidental and not a result of consciousness. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, contends his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.
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