Schiavo Case Took Years to Gain Notice

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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - When Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, George H.W. Bush was in the White House and she was just an ordinary insurance company clerk who liked stuffed animals and romance novels, and was desperately trying to have children.

By the time she died this past week, Bush's son was president, and she had become the central figure in a national debate on the right to die and on who gets to decide.

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Schiavo Case Took Years to Gain Notice

How did it come to this? How did one brain-damaged woman's intensely personal tragedy become a worldwide news story?

The answer is that it was able to "ripen s...

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