CV NEWS FEED // To commemorate the 20-year anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s tragic death through court-ordered euthanasia, the network dedicated to her memory is launching several initiatives to help other people with brain injuries and to raise awareness about her story.
In 1990, Schiavo was 26 years old when she unexpectedly collapsed at home and suffered a serious brain injury, according to the Terry Schiavo Life and Hope Network.
The website states in its “frequently asked questions” page, that she was not “braindead,” in a coma, or on a ventilator or any other machine. Nor was she in a “permanent vegetative stage,” contrary to the judge who ruled in 2005 that her feeding tube could be removed –
she was still responding to her friends and family.
Her husband, Michael, who started a family with another
