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Terri Schiavo's Family to Write Book
Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings are writing a book about the end-of-life case that divided the nation. The yet-untitled memoir by parents Bob and Mary Schindler, brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo will be published in March to coincide with the first anniversary of her death. The brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was removed after her husband, Michael Schiavo, won a court order to do so.
Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, fought his in-laws in court for eight years to end her life, arguing she would not have wanted to be kept alive in what doctors called a persistent vegetative state. Michael Schiavo is collaborating with author Michael Hirsh on a book "Terri: the Truth," also planned for release in March by Dutton Publishing.
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Terri Schiavo was 26 when she collapsed in her apartment in 1990 and was left with irreversible brain damage. Her parents and siblings fought to keep her alive, contending that she had some level of consciousness and interacted with them.
Her collapse was for years attributed to an eating disorder, but medical examiners could not say for certain what caused it. The autopsy supported Michael Schiavo's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state with no consciousness and no hope of recovery.
© 2005 Associated Press.
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