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In 2004-2005, when the Terri Schiavo case divided the united states, one side of the story was buried under the avalanche of politics and power. Now, Terri Schiavo's parents, brother, and sister speak out, for Terri and themselves. A Life That Matters may well change every assumption you have about Terri's too-brief life and prolonged, agonizing death.Here the folks who loved her and knew her best tell the story not only of the 15 years Terri struggled to remain alive, but of your gentle child who brought happiness to everyone she touched. This is actually the story of a normal adolescent who blossomed into the beautiful young woman who captured Michael Schiavo's heart. And it is the within story with their troubled relationship, for the members of Terri's family were witnesses to a growing tension, and were her confidants as she struggled in her marriage with the husband who would later crusade on her behalf premature and unnecessary death.A book that stakes clear moral ground without a political aim, A Life That Matters takes us inside Terri's family when the courts ordered her feeding tube removed, and it leads inexorably to a scene that will haunt readers forever: a bereft family barred by the police off their daughter's hospice room in the final occasions of her life.A Life That Matters separates lies from truth, myth from facts, and politics from people. It challenges us to listen to what and feel the feelings of the warm, intensely private family who never sought the media storm that accosted them, or the devastating legal battle that broke their hearts. The book asks us what we'd do if we found ourselves, as the Schindlers did, wanting nothing more than to love and care for a daughter so long as she could live.
