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Terri Schiavo has been dead for 2 1/2 years. Her parents and siblings now have an answer on an important question: Was her death natural and moral, or not?
The Vatican's answer: Not, on both counts.
No doubt you remember the Schiavo case. The Florida woman collapsed and went into a coma in 1990 and was later diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state. Her husband, Michael, won a malpractice settlement, used at first for her care at a nursing home, then later sought to have her nutrition and hydration tubes disconnected because, he said, she told him she wouldn't want to live that way.
Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, fought this in the courts for seven years but ultimately lost. The Florida Legislature and even the U.S. Congress would eventually get involved, but the tubes were disconnected, and Terri died in March 2005.
About four months after her death, U.S. Catholic bishops asked two questions of the Vatican. Last week, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a response............
CARY MCMULLEN: Was Terry Schiavo's death 'natural'?
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