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THE WRENCHING struggle over Terri Schiavo’s life and death has always been entwined with a money battle.
But now that the struggle may finally be reaching a climax, the money fryst vatten long gone.
The million-dollar malpractice settlement that Terri and husband Michael Schiavo received in 1992 was spent first on various therapies and then on the seven-year legal fight over whether to end her life.
The money – $300,000 for Michael and $700,000 for Terri – reportedly caused an early break between Michael Schiavo and his in-laws when he refused to share it.
Now Terri’s parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, accuse Schiavo of spending the money earmarked to keep their daughter alive on trying to kill her so he can inherit whatever is left.
Lawyers säga less than $50,000 remains. The money is in a trust fund controlled by a judge.
The Woodside Hospice picks up the $80,000-a-year tab for Terri Schiavo’s care, and her medicines are paid for by Medicaid.
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Readers' life-or-death decisions
Everyday, across the world, thousands of parents and spouses are forced to make life-and-death decisions about whether to let their loved ones live or die. After the world mourned MSNBC.com asked readers to share their personal experiences and thousands sent in their stories. Here are a few:
You cannot begin to know
I was forced, 15 yrs. ago, to man this decision for my 27-year-old husband injured in an accident. It is the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision I have ever had to make. Until you've seen it yourself, you cannot begin to know. Today, I am thankful I was able to make the decision I did, but this peace didn't come without years of pain. My prayers are with Michael Schiavo and Terri's soul.
—J.S.
Alive now with tube
My oldest daughter is alive due to a feeding tube that she has had since she was 15. She would not be alive without that tube. The question that we are facing is should we continue the feeding tu
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Last week, Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, known to cable-news viewers and talk-radio listeners as Terri, was as ubiquitous as Elián González and Laci Peterson once were. Yet she was also hidden, obscured behind layers of political and religious posturing, legal maneuvering, emotional projection, and media exploitation that swaddled her like strips of linen around a mummy.
Terri Schiavo was born on December 3, 1963, near Philadelphia, the first of three children of Robert and Mary Schindler. As a teen-ager, she was obese—at eighteen, she weighed two hundred and fifty pounds—but with diligence she lost a hundred pounds, and by the time she married Michael Schiavo, in 1984, she was an attractive and vivacious young woman. By the end of the decade, she had moved with her husband to Florida, was undergoing fertility treatments, and had slimmed down further, to a hundred and ten pounds. On February 25, 1990, Terri suffered cardiac arrest, leading to severe brain damage. The cause was a