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Today's update from the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation:

Four Years Ago Today, March 27, 2005

Today was Day 10 of Judge George W. Greer's court ordered slow death by starvation and dehydration of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Over the next two weeks we will post stories of the events that occurred on each of those days. We offer this not only in respect for Terri's memory, but a reminder that in this moment countless people are suffering slow, agonizing deaths in hospice, nursing homes, and hospitals in America and around the world.

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Family 'Grief Stricken' as Legal Options Dissolve and Terri Schiavo Nears End

From March 27, 2005 (FBW)

In the hours just before Easter Sunday, when Christ's resurrection is remembered in special services throughout the world, Terri Schiavo's parents sent out an urgent request to supporters.

“Everyone go home. Be with your children, hold them close and cherish every moment you have with them,” said Paul O'Donnell (pictured), spiritual advisor to the Bob and Mary Schindler.

Voicing the wishes of the family to dozens of reporters in the day’s news conference at about 9 p.m. EST, O’Donnell referenced the approaching holiday and said the Schindler family is ‘grief stricken’ at watching their daughter’s life ebb away through court-ordered starvation and dehydration.

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Italian Senate approves right-to-die restrictions

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate approved a bill Thursday to ban caregivers from suspending food and water to any patient — a move that comes after a right-to-die case divided the nation.

The woman in that case, Eluana Englaro, died last month after her family cut off her food and water. She had been at the center of a legal battle since entering a vegetative state following a 1992 car accident.

The new bill, if approved by the lower house of parliament, would allow people to decide in advance how they want to be treated if they become incapacitated and to state it in a living will. Currently, Italy has no law allowing a living will.

The legislation also states that while patients have a right to refuse treatment, they cannot refuse nutrition or hydration because those are not treatments but "vital support."

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