Terri Schiavo case

The Terri Schiavo case involved a legal battle over her medical care after she suffered severe brain damage from a cardiac arrest in 1990. Unable to communicate, her husband and her parents disagreed—he wanted to remove her feeding tube, believing she wouldn’t recover, while they wanted continued life support. The case became a national controversy, with court decisions ultimately allowing her feeding tube to be withdrawn in 2005, based on her presumed wishes and medical evaluations. It raised important ethical debates about end-of-life care, patient consent, and the rights of families versus medical authority.