Reply #226: Jeb Bush may take Terri Schiavo into state care: Times [View All]

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March 25, 2005

Jeb Bush may take Terri Schiavo into state care
By Jenny Booth, Times Online, and Tim Reid in Washington

The war over the fate of Terri Schiavo was entering its final stages today as her parents clung to two slim hopes of preventing their severely brain-damaged daughter from being allowed to die.

The 41-year-old has been without food or water for almost seven days, after her feeding tube was removed last Friday on the orders of a Florida state judge.

Friends and lawyers say she is showing signs of dehydration - flaky skin, dry tongue and lips, and sunken eyes. Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being removed.

"It's very frustrating. Every minute that goes by is a minute that Terri is being starved and dehydrated to death," said her brother, Bobby Schindler, who said seeing her was like looking at "pictures of prisoners in concentration camps".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1541708,00.html