Terri Schiavo

When Your Loved Ones Hold Your Life in Their Hands

Janice Van Dyck | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Letting Go, Terri Schiavo, Advance Care Planning, End of Life Decisions, Healthcare, Family, National Healthcare Decisions Day, Advanced Care Directives, Death & Dying, Advanced Care Directive, Healthy Living News
Janice Van Dyck

National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) falls conveniently every April 16 so you can deal with the difficult matters of death and taxes all in one week. NHDD is one day when we're asked to put our own discomfort aside and think about the loved ones we leave behind.

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Death And Taxes: Why We Need To Talk Openly About End-of-Life Care

Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Taxes, Terri Schiavo, National Health Care Decisions Day, Advance Directives, Death & Dying, Living Wills, End of Life, Compassion, Health Care Proxy, Home News
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs

The greatest gift you can give to your family, is letting them know what your wishes are regarding how you want your body treated as you near the end of your life. So, in addition to preparing your tax return, take the time to prepare your advance directive.

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Vigilantes in Scrubs

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Patient-Centered Principles, Cruzan, Palliative Medicine, Barbara Coombs Lee, Beneficence, Autonomy, Bioethics, Healthy Living Health News, New Research, Death and Dying, Healthy Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

We need specific legal protection for professionals who honor their patients' end-of-life decisions and follow best-practice standards for managing end-of-life agonies.

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The Schiavo Case Seven Years Later

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Barbara Coombs Lee, Newt Gingrich, Republican Presidential Debate, Republican Presidential Candidates, Senator Bill Frist, Ron Paul, Terri Schiavo, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Politicians should not limit those choices arbitrarily and should never seek to impose their own moral judgment on complex deliberations in a religiously diverse nation.

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Santorum's Schiavo Advocacy Could Haunt Him In Key State

Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Terri Schiavo, New Hampshire Primary Election 2012, New Hampshire Primary, Santorum, Santorum New Hampshire, 2012 Election, New Hampshire Primary 2012, Santorum Terri Schiavo, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum 2012, Santorum Schiavo, New Hampshire Primary Election, Shiavo, Politics News

The fight over the fate of Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old Florida woman who died in 2005 after a judge ordered her life-preserving feeding tubes remov...

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A Pennsylvanian's Guide to the Rick Santorum You Don't Know

Will Bunch | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Terri Schiavo, Mortgages, K Street Lobbyists, Opus Dei, Charity, Ethics, Rick Santorum, Outback Steakhouse, Barack Obama, Wal-Mart, Homesc, Pennsylvania, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Politics News
Will Bunch

You could say that Rick Santorum is just another politician. But that would be giving him too much credit.

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Md. Man Dies Before Hearing On Feeding-Tube Clash

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Family Conflict, Feeding Tube, Video, Daniel Sanger, Frederick County, Dan Sanger, Feeding-Tube Case, Maryland, DC News

FREDERICK, Md. -- A brain-damaged man at the center of a Maryland dispute over whether his feeding tube should be removed has died. An attorney for t...

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Stuttering Article Becomes Springboard for More Abuse

Christopher R. Smit, Ph.D. | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Stuttering, Christopher Reeve, Abuse, Disability, People With Disabilities, College News
Christopher R. Smit, Ph.D.

The article was on the front page of the New York Times, chronicling the story of a young man with a stutter who was asked by his college professor not to participate in class discussion.

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Where There's a Will...

Claire Fordham | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Christopher Reeve, Living Will, Wills, Media, Stieg Larsson, Intellectual Property, Estate Law, Estates, Last Will and Testament, Huff/Post50 News
Claire Fordham

When you write your will, you have to cover every eventuality. What if you and your spouse die in an accident, who will look after your kids? What if you are all killed in an accident?

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The GOP's Pro-Abortion Stand

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Gop, John Boehner, Terri Schiavo, Hyde Amendment, Rick Santorum, Harry Reid, Budget Showdown, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party, Bill Frist, Chris Matthews, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

As evidenced by the budget showdown that took place last week in Washington, the Republican Party is doing everything in its power to ensure that there are more abortions than ever in the years to come.

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A Nuanced Look at How We Die

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hbo, Terri Schiavo, Physician-Assisted-Suicide, Palliative Care, Al Pacino, Euthanasia, Sarah Palin, Dr. Kevorkian, Jack Kevorkian, Books News
Michael Sigman

As medical technology continues to improve, it is more and more absurd to insist that everyone suffering the end stages of terminal diseases must be kept alive regardless of their wishes.

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5 Years After Terri Schiavo: What Have We Learned?

David Casarett, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hospice, Terri Schiavo, Living Wills, End of Life Care, Palliative Care, Death Panels, Assisted Suicide, Death & Dying, Health, Dealing With Grief, Health Care Reform, Death and Dying, Health Care, Healthy Living News
David Casarett, M.D.

More than ever, we need Congress to take end-of-life care seriously. We still need legislation that will encourage physicians to take the time to talk to patients about the choices that are available to them.

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What a Real Government Takeover Looks Like

Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform Vote, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Terri Schiavo, Government-Takeover-of-Health-Care, Politics News
Rep. Rush Holt

As Congress convenes today to pass health reform, I'm reminded of one of the last times we voted on a Sunday: March 2005, when Republicans forced an extraordinary vote to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo.

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Terri Schiavo Foundation Allegedly Operating Without Permission, Using Deceased Relative's Name 'To Make Money'

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Robert Schindler, Terri Schindler Schiavo, Mary Schindler, Right to Die, Michael Schiavo, Nonprofits, Bobby Schindler, Video, Home News

Nothing seemed certain about Terri Schiavo's death. Now there are questions about a tax exempt organization formed in her honor. Once America's mos...

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Bishops vs. Patients' Rights

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Terri Schiavo, Feeding Tube, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, End of Life Care, Advance Directives, Catholic Health Association, Alzheimer's, Compassion & Choices, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Barbara Coombs Lee

I have written how recent changes to Ethical and Religious Directive (ERD) Number 58 compel Catholic hospitals and nursing homes to either disregard y...

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The Mark Kirk We Know

Steve Sheffey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Abortion, Cap and Trade, Gay Rights, Mark Kirk, Darrell Issa, Gitmo Detainees Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Israel, Democrats, Republicans, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Politics News
Steve Sheffey

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been my Congressman since he was elected in 2000. Tonight, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The other Presiden...

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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More Republican Lies and Deception Over Cancer Screening

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cervical Cancer, President Obama, Mammography, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Shakira, Breast Cancer Screenings, Preventive Service Task Force, Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Pap Smnear, George W Bush, Sen. Tom Coburn, Breat Cancer, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.

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End of Life Consultations: Adults Only

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Congress, End of Life Consultations, Advance Directives, Midterm Elections, Death Panels, Prostate Cancer, Medicare, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Compassion and Choices, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Some leaders prefer to confine us in childhood, so we need never acknowledge, grieve over or plan for our own deaths. A childish approach to end-of-life issues permeated the August recess.

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Sam Stein

GOPers Decrying Obama "Death Panels" Supported Intervention For Schiavo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gingrich, Obama Death Panel, Terri Schiavo, Schaivo Death Panel, Michael Steele, John Cornyn Death Panel, Republicans Death Panel, Obama Health Care, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

On a conference call with reporters this week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.) repeated what has become the most popular conservative canard about Preside...

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Far-Right Fearmongering on Death is Nothing New

Scott Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Health Care Reform, Death Panel, Death With Dignity, President Obama, Sarah Palin, Death, Health, Politics News
Scott Swenson

Why is it that in life's most personal and private moments--sexuality, conception, birth and the dying process--the party that says it governs least always governs most?

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Terri Schaivo, End of Life, and Health Care Reform

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, End of Life, End of Life Ethics, Terri-Schiavo, Religion and Health Care Reform, Politics News
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

The last and only public policy debate we had about health care and end of life issues was the Terri Schiavo case. No wonder the conversation has turned hysterical.

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Chris Matthews "Birthers Out" with his "Deather" Stance on Living Wills

John Amato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, End of Life Consultation, Chris Matthews, Birthers, Living Wills, Crooks and Liars, Rachel Maddow, Glenn Beck, Politics News
John Amato

Matthews goes so far as to conflate end-of-life counseling with the government paying for abortions, and then calls them both "social policy".

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Carville and Rove Duke It Out at Radio City Music Hall

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Kathleen Blanco, Karl Rove, Charlie Rose, Cia, Rush Limbaugh, Colin Powell, James Carville, Iraq, Code Pink, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Guantanamo Bay, Ray Nagin, Terri Schiavo, Sonia Sotomayor, Nancy Pelosi, 1960's Civil Rights Act. Republican Party, Radio City Music Hall Speaker Series, Hurricane Katrina, Social Security Privatization, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Instead of getting Ali and Frazier, the crowd braced itself for a confrontation between Carville -- "The Ragin' Cajun," and Rove -- "The Boy Genius." There was drama and theatrics galore.

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Charlie Crist: Bad News for the GOP?

Adele Stan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terri Schiavo, John Cornyn, Charlie Crist, Gay Rights, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Closet, Latino Vote, LGBT Rights, Hispanic Vote, Religious Right, Gay, Larry Craig, Republican Party, Mike Rogers, Kirby Dick, Outrage, Politics News
Adele Stan

Is Charlie Crist the face of a new Republican Party, or a harbinger of the GOP's demise? He's handsome, personable and popular: a dream candidate for...

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