Florida. (AP) - The severely brain-damaged woman whose final years tethered to a feeding tube sparked a bitter feud over her fate that divided a family and a nation has died. Terri Schiavo died quietly at about nine this morning in a Pinellas Park hospice 13 days after her feeding tube was removed despite extraordinary intervention by Florida lawmakers, Congress and President Bush. Her husband Michael Schiavo was in the hospice room with his wife when she died. His lawyer says Michael was cradling her. Attorney George Felos says the husband wanted Terri to have a peaceful death with dignity. The attorney for the woman's parents Bob and Mary Schindler says they are grieving in private. David Gibbs the third also says Terri's brother and sister were in the room with her until ten minutes before she died.
Terri Schiavo, brain-damaged Florida woman, dies Thursday
The severely brain-damaged woman whose final years tethered to a feeding tube sparked a bitter feud over her fate that divided a family and a nation has died.
