It was the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, a woman who was on a ventilator. After the ventilator was disconnected, Ms. Quinlan was expected to die within minutes, but instead lived on for years.
So I guess what Terri meant was that if she were in KAQ's situation, she would want her husband to disconnect the ventilator and then stuff a pillow over her head to ensure she didn't start breathing on her own.
Have a good evening.
A girlfirend said she watched the Karen Quinlen movie with Terri. They had just graduated from high school when the movie came out. Her story is very credible.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/24/schiavo.profile.ap/
Before fight over death, Terri Schiavo had a life
PINELLAS PARK, Florida (AP) -- Diane Meyer can recall only one time that her best friend, Terri Schiavo, really got angry with her. It was in 1981, and it haunts her still.
The recent high school graduates had just seen a television movie about Karen Ann Quinlan, who had been in a coma since collapsing six years earlier and was the subject of a bitter court battle over her parents' decision to take her off a respirator. Meyer says she told a cruel joke about Quinlan, and it set Terri off.
"She went down my throat about this joke, that it was inappropriate," Meyer says. She remembers Terri saying she wondered how the doctors and lawyers could possibly know what Quinlan was really feeling or what she would want.
"Where there's life," Meyer recalls her saying, "there's hope."
Twenty-two years later and suffering from brain damage, Terri is now the subject of a similar debate -- and so is the question of what choice she would make about her life and death.
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In contrast to Meyer's recollection, her husband, Michael Schiavo, and members of his family have said Terri told them she would not want to be kept alive artificially if she were incapable of getting better.
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