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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.65,0:00:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.19,0:00:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>In the debate over a sick patient's right \Nto die, there has rarely, if ever, been a case
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.94,0:00:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the one in Florida. \N>>In 2003, America watched
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.81,0:00:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a private family struggle \Nbecame a very public feud.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.92,0:00:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Terri Schiavo's husband and her parents in \NFlorida have been fighting for a long time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.84,0:00:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about whether her feeding \Ntube should be disconnected.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.92,0:00:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>And a personal battle eventually \Nsparked a political firestorm.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.91,0:00:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>I'm asking you, isn't she being murdered?\N>>...an extraordinary session here on Capitol Hill.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.83,0:00:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Tonight this Congress is \Nabout to commit a travesty.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.70,0:00:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Today, we're still grappling \Nwith end-of-life issues, but will
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.34,0:00:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientific advancements help to clarify \Nthem, or only make them more complicated?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.34,0:00:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Some patients who appear to be entirely \Nvegetative are actually quite the opposite.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.51,0:01:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.48,0:01:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Terri Schiavo's case started \Nlong before the cameras appeared.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.53,0:01:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was February of 1990 when the \N26-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.61,0:01:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Bobby Schindler, her brother] She \Nwent several minutes without oxygen
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.31,0:01:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from her collapse and experienced \Na profound brain injury.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.69,0:01:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first couple days, doctors didn't \Nknow if she was going to live or die.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.72,0:01:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Lack of oxygen left Schiavo \Nwith severe brain damage and in what
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.61,0:01:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doctors call a persistent vegetative \Nstate, or PVS, a condition in which
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.73,0:01:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the parts of the brain that control thinking \Nand awareness are damaged or destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.11,0:01:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the brain stem, which controls basic \Nreflexes like breathing, remains.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.28,0:01:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially, Terri's husband and parents \Ncared for her together, exploring potential
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.22,0:01:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treatments and rehabilitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.72,0:01:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, 4 years after her collapse, Michael Schiavo \Nsays doctors gave him a grim prognosis.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.67,0:01:56.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Michael Schiavo] It was to a point \Nwhere Terri wasn't going to function.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.75,0:02:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was nothing more, and they told us, her \Nmother was sitting right there at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.17,0:02:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was nothing more \Nthey could do for Terri. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.57,0:02:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] In 1998, Michael Schaivo petitioned \Nto have his wife's feeding tube removed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.60,0:02:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying she had told him and others she \Nwouldn't want to live in this condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.83,0:02:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, \Nfought desperately to keep her alive,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.05,0:02:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insisting that removing her feeding \Ntube would be tantamount to murder.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.54,0:02:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Bobby] People think Terri was in a coma, \Nshe was brain dead, that she was terminal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.73,0:02:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terri was not dying. Terri had a profound \Nbrain injury. And our family wanted to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.31,0:02:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,care for her just they was she was. \N>>[Narrator] With no living will
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.92,0:02:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expressing her wishes, it was up to the \Nstate courts to decide Terri's fate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.09,0:02:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Arthur Caplan] They went \Nto court more than anybody
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.64,0:02:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has ever gone to court, in my experience, \Nin fighting about an end-of-life care case.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.05,0:02:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[George Felos, Michael's attorney] \NThis was probably the most litigated
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.62,0:02:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,case that I can think of.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.72,0:02:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were up and down the Federal court system, \Nthe state court system, many, many times.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.54,0:02:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] At least 19 judges heard \Nthe case through various appeals and the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.95,0:03:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decisions were all ultimately in Michael \NSchiavo's favor. Going back to the original
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.47,0:03:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,court ruling that said that there was \N"clear and convincing evidence" that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.38,0:03:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terri would not want to be kept alive and \Nthat her feeding tube should be removed.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.97,0:03:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Michael] She told me what she wanted and the \Ncourts heard it, over and over and over again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.71,0:03:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] For Terri's parents, \Nthe legal decisions were devastating.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.22,0:03:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The appeal to the media and the public:\N>>[Mary] Please, please, please, save my little girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.51,0:03:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Caplan] They became a cause, they \Ngot picked up by talk radio, they had
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.68,0:03:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,religious groups weighing in on their behalf.\N>>[praying] Spare this innocent child.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.70,0:03:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Caplan] There was a fear, across \Nthe board, of euthanasia, assisted suicide,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.65,0:03:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abortion, and abandonment of the disabled, \Nif you will. That's what a lot of the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.17,0:03:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motives were that drove those who \Nrallied to the side of Terri's parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.71,0:03:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Randall Terry, Operation Rescue] \NTo deliberately starve her to death
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.63,0:04:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an act of cruelty, and \Nultimately it's murder itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.90,0:04:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Bobby] Terri touched a nerve with so \Nmany people because they saw a family who
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.46,0:04:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was willing and wanting \Nto care for her.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.70,0:04:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't understand why they \Nweren't being allowed to do that.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.06,0:04:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] On both sides...\N>>[Crowd] Let Terri live! Let Terri live!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.96,0:04:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] ...emotions ran high.\N>>[man] No one would want to live this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.53,0:04:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Twenty times in court! Twenty times!\N>>This is the Roe vs. Wade of euthanasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.34,0:04:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Michael] I used to say, "What are these \Npeople doing? Why Terri?" People's feeding \N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.88,0:04:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tubes are removed every day. To this day \NI don't know why, but it was very surreal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.51,0:04:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Oprah] Should Terri \NSchiavo live or die?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.78,0:04:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[reporter] What evidence is there that \Nthis woman has any brain function or not?\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.85,0:04:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Michael Schiavo believes the \Nmedia fanned the flames. Especially after
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.02,0:04:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Schindlers released a series of videos that \Nthey said proved Terri was conscious and aware. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.13,0:04:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Terri making guttural vocalizations]\N>>[Mary] It's Mommy!\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.25,0:04:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] But, Caplan says \Nthe videos were misleading.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.92,0:04:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Caplan] It was irresponsible beyond belief \Nthat it was run unchallenged and unexamined.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.77,0:05:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was too attractive to the media not to \Nuse. Here she is! But, it was assembled
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.78,0:05:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,selectively and it was staged and it \Ndid not indicate what she could do.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.63,0:05:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Caplan says that what looked \Nlike intentional responses in Terri were
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.39,0:05:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just reflexes that are common in people \Nin a persistent vegetative state.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.52,0:05:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Caplan] A lot of our bodily systems \Nare run off that part of the brain that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.38,0:05:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terri still had. That tape used that fact and \Nmade it look as if she was thinking and feeling.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.52,0:05:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] While most of the doctors who \Nexamined Schiavo believed she was in a
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.95,0:05:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vegetative state, not everyone \Nin the medical community agreed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.10,0:05:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[reporter] There's a total of about 14 \Nspecialists in brain injury and stroke,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.80,0:05:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is her situation, who have come out \Nto say she is not in PVS, not in a coma,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.05,0:05:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does respond, is alert, and actually \Nhas even the ability to communicate.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.08,0:05:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] With each side entrenched, \Narguments turned to threats.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.85,0:05:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Felos] It's no fun getting up in the \Nmorning and looking under your car before
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.85,0:06:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start the engine to see if there's a \Ndevice because you've had people contact
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.62,0:06:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you saying that they're going to blow you \Nto bits if you keep working on this case. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.20,0:06:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Michael] My house was invaded day in \Nand day out. And these are people pushing
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.55,0:06:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their views on me. And I don't understand \Nthat. You have your view on things and you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.98,0:06:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have your beliefs, that's great.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.28,0:06:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, don't stand outside somebody \Nelse's house and push that on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.07,0:06:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crowd chanting]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.10,0:06:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] And the more the fight played \Nout in public, the more political it became.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.100,0:06:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Rep. Sandra Murman] Who's going\Nto look out for this girl's rights?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.20,0:06:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.80,0:06:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] In 2003, Florida legislators \Npassed "Terri's Law," which gave Governor
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.80,0:06:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeb Bush the authority to \Nreattach Schiavo's feeding tube.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.53,0:06:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tube had been removed \Nby court order 6 days earlier.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.89,0:06:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Jeb Bush] We did what was right and I'm \Nproud of the legislature for responding.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.72,0:06:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] The state law was eventually \Nfound to be unconstitutional, but in 2005,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.08,0:06:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fight moved to Capitol Hill. \N>>[reporter] There are extraordinary
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.45,0:07:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,events happening in Washington tonight \Nas the U.S. Congress and President move
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.39,0:07:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward passing a law before morning to \Nintervene in the case of Terri Schiavo.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.31,0:07:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] By then, Schiavo's \Nfeeding tube had been removed again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.60,0:07:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Rep. Tom DeLay] If we do \Nnot act she will die of thirst. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.52,0:07:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Conservative law makers led \Nthe charge to pass a law that would give
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.12,0:07:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terri's parents the chance to \Ncontinue their fight in Federal court.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.12,0:07:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Sen. Bill Frist] These are extraordinary \Ncircumstances that center on the most
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.38,0:07:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fundamental of human values and \Nvirtues, the sanctity of human life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.69,0:07:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Opponents argued that politicians had \Nno place interfering in personal medical decisions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.23,0:07:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Rep. Debbie Schultz] Do we \Nreally want to insert ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.73,0:07:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of families' private \Nmatters all across America?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.77,0:07:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Rep. Jim Davis] This Congress should \Nrespect the law and the rulings of courts
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.31,0:07:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not trample the Constitution.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.67,0:07:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] After a late night \Nemergency session of Congress...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.57,0:07:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>For the relief of the parents \Nof Theresa Marie Schiavo...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.23,0:08:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] The bill came to a vote.\N>>203 yays, 58 nays. The bill is passed
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.79,0:08:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and without objection a motion to \Nreconsider is laid upon the table.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.47,0:08:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] The bill was then rushed over to \NPresident Bush, who signed it after midnight.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.96,0:08:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the law wasn't enough. A Federal \Njudge refused to order the feeding tube
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.00,0:08:21.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reinserted because he found the arguments \Nwere unlikely to succeed in Federal court.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.97,0:08:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Schindler family kept appealing to no \Navail. And on March 31, 2005, the long,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.64,0:08:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painful, public struggle was over.\N>>[reporter] The end came this morning
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.35,0:08:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Terri Schiavo and her husband's lawyer \Nsaid she died peacefully 13 days after her
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.64,0:08:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeding tube was removed. \N>>[Bobby] Terri, we love you dearly,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.30,0:08:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we know that God loves you more than we do. \NWe must accept your untimely death as God's will.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.22,0:08:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Schiavo's autopsy eventually \Nconfirmed what had been so hotly contested
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.30,0:09:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for years in court proceedings. The damage to \Nher brain had been massive and irreversible.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.32,0:09:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, 9 years after Schiavo's death, while \Nwe are still struggling with end-of-life issues,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.49,0:09:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,advanced brain imaging is helping scientists \Nbetter understand the minds of people who
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.40,0:09:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are unable to communicate. And they're finding \Nsome surprising and unexpected results.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.56,0:09:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Adrian Owen] It might be possible \Nin some of these cases that what you see
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.10,0:09:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not what you get. \N>>[Narrator] Dr. Adrian Owen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.46,0:09:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a neuroscientist who is using brain scans\Nto search for glimmers of consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.44,0:09:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in patients who've been diagnosed in a \Nvegetative state. He says it wouldn't have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.57,0:09:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worked with Terri Schiavo, but his method \Nhas shown promise with some patients.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.26,0:09:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Owen puts them in a high tech scanner and \Nasks them to imagine doing certain activities
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.49,0:09:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like playing tennis or moving around their home.\N>>[Dr. Owen] We're trying to get the patient
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.52,0:09:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do something when we ask them to do it, \Nbut of course, they can't move because
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.44,0:09:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's part of the diagnosis \Nof vegetative state.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.69,0:10:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our question was, well can some of \Nthese patients do it with their brain?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.41,0:10:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to imagine playing tennis only \Nif the answer to the question is yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.55,0:10:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does your sister, Jen, have a daughter? \NWe're going to start the scan now.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.55,0:10:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] He looks to see if his question \Nwill activate a specific part of the brain.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.56,0:10:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Owen] That's pretty good. \NHe has this whole band of activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.74,0:10:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven, we can see your brain lighting up \Nwhen you're trying to answer the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.73,0:10:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Even though his sample \Nsize is small, Owen's work has garnered
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.24,0:10:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attention from the scientific community. He \Nfound that nearly 20% of the patients he's tested,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.66,0:10:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,patients who meet the criteria for being \Nvegetative, have shown signs of awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.78,0:10:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Including some, like Steven, who seem to answer \Nsimple yes or no questions using only their minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.75,0:10:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For now, Owen is avoiding \Nthe toughest question of all.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.42,0:10:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Dr. Owen] We really haven't got to the \Npoint of asking really tricky ethical
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.00,0:11:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,questions like, "do you want to live or die?" \NIn part, that's because the appropriate
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.20,0:11:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ethical frameworks aren't yet in place for \Ndeciding what we would do with that information.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.25,0:11:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Almost all of the patients \Nwho've shown evidence of awareness have
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.84,0:11:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffered from trauma or blows to the head, \Nnot oxygen deprivation like Schiavo.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.42,0:11:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, Bobby Schindler says the extent of her injuries \Nwouldn't have made a difference to his family.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.50,0:11:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Bobby] I think it's important to also \Nunderstand that none of this mattered to
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.67,0:11:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my family in this battle. It didn't matter to us \Nif Terri never improved from her condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.34,0:11:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We loved her unconditionally. \NWe loved her that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.97,0:11:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[reporter] The family of a little \Ngirl left on life support after a
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.41,0:11:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tonsil surgery goes horribly wrong, \Ngets a really powerful ally.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.47,0:11:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Narrator] Today, Schindler and \Nhis family remain in the public eye.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.22,0:11:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They run a non-profit in Terri's memory \Nto help families facing similar issues.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.12,0:11:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>[Bobby] ...the team put together and \Nwe're doing everything we can to get Jahi
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.45,0:11:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the situation with the hospital.\N>>[Narrator] In one way or another,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.42,0:12:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terri Schiavo's plight continues to leave a \Nmark on the nation. It inspired an initial
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.17,0:12:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increase in living wills and advanced \Ndirectives just after she died.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.37,0:12:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in 2007, she ranked just below Mother \NTheresa and Oprah on a list of people who
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.57,0:12:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moved us most in the last quarter century.\N>>[Michael] I think the country has learned
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.82,0:12:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something. I hope they say, "Remember the \NTerri Schiavo story. What do you want me
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.51,0:12:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do if something happens to you?" \NAnd I'm hoping that's Terri's legacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.01,0:12:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now she's at peace. \NShe has what she wanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.09,0:12:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as her grave stone says at \Nthe bottom, "I kept my promise."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.87,0:12:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]