A new documentary, Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo’s Story, explores the case that gripped a nation Matt May/Getty A new documentary about Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was in a persistent ...

After Terri Schiavo: Following the headline-making, court-supported death of a young woman in a “persistent vegetative state,” support for euthanasia in the U.S. continues to rise, doubling in five ...

Much of the ammunition in the battle over Terri Schiavo’s fate has been medical language that’s fairly new in the public realm. The terms can mean one thing to experts and another thing entirely when ...

Many of the patients were labeled with the same grim diagnosis: "vegetative state." Their head injuries, teams of specialists had concluded, condemned them to a netherworld -- alive yet utterly devoid ...