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The decision to remove Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube is comparable in its inhumanity to the actions of the Nazis during World War II, Schiavo’s brother Bobby Schindler said before an audience of mostly students in Frist 302 last night.
Schiavo died in 2005 at age 41, two weeks after doctors, following orders from a federal judge, removed a feeding tube that had kept her alive for more than a decade.
Schiavo had previously suffered brain damage following an incident of cardiac arrest, which had deprived her brain of oxygen.
“There is no such thing as a person who is a non-person. There is no one so disabled that they have lost their value or dignity,” Schindler said, adding that classifying individuals as “non-persons” would be akin to “walk[ing] down the same path that led to the Nuremberg trials.”....................
Schindler: Schiavo was not in a vegetative state
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