If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo

Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people — politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts — made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri’s death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happ...