Terri Schiavo’s husband buried her cremated remains, inscribing on her bronze grave marker: “I kept my promise.”

FLORIDA governor Jeb Bush said yesterday that a prosecutor has agreed to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, citing an alleged time gap between when her husband Michael found her and when he called for an ambulance.

The governor of Florida Jeb Bush said today that a prosecutor has agreed to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, citing an alleged time gap between when her husband Michael found her and when he called for an ambulance.

AN autopsy that found Terri Schiavo suffered from severe and irreversible brain damage has done nothing to sway her parents’ belief that she deserved to live and may have recovered.

AN autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said yesterday.

American Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman released today.

The lawyer for Terri Schiavo’s husband says he’s confident the long-awaited autopsy report on the brain-damaged woman will show no evidence she was abused before she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state.

TERRI Schiavo’s parents, grateful for Vatican backing in their failed campaign to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive, briefly met Pope Benedict yesterday and gave him a framed picture of her.

The parents of Terri Schiavo met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at a general audience in the Vatican today, touching the Pope’s hands and presenting him with a picture of their daughter.

The family of Terri Schiavo met with a cardinal today to thank him for the Vatican’s support as they sought to keep the brain-damaged woman alive.

An Australian man accused of trying to murder his wife has lost a legal battle for the right to decide whether to keep her on life support, in a case that has drawn comparisons with the drawn out US court battle over the final days of Terri Schiavo.

THE arguments surrounding Terri Schiavo will live on in US state legislatures debate and new laws, if an emerging coalition of disability rights activists and right-to-lifers succeed in turning the national agony over her case into a re-examination of when and how our lives come to an end.

Terri Schiavo’s body was cremated yesterday as disagreements continued between her husband and her parents, who were unable to have their own independent expert observe her autopsy.

PROTESTERS were gone yesterday from the hospice where Terri Schiavo died, but the feud between her parents and husband raged, with the families planning separate funerals.

TERRI SCHIAVO’S death was met with sadness, anger, despair - and prayers - by supporters of her parents, who had battled the severely brain-damaged woman’s husband over the removal of her feeding tube.

THE extraordinary race to save Terri Schiavo’s life reached a tragic but inevitable end yesterday when she died after 13 days without food or water.

THE Vatican said the death of Terri Schiavo yesterday was a “violation of the sacred nature of life”, and hoped it would lead to legal changes.

TERRI SCHIAVO, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman who spent 15 years connected to a feeding tube in an epic legal and medical battle that went all the way to the White House and Congress, died yesterday.

WHEN writing on how to treat people with chronic illnesses (Opinion, March 30), Rónán Mullen seems to be searching for a simplicity that is not there.

The death of Terri Schiavo, who died after being in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, was met with an outpouring of grief in the US tonight.

Terri Schiavo has died in Florida.

A US federal appeals court raised a flicker of hope for the parents of brain dead Terri Schiavo, but snuffed it out by firmly declining to intervene in the gruelling legal battle.

A FEDERAL appeals court agreed to consider an emergency bid by Terri Schiavo’s parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect her feeding tube, raising their fading hopes of keeping the severely brain-damaged woman alive.

A federal appeals court has this morning agreed to consider a petition by Terri Schiavo’s parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect their severely brain-damaged daughter’s feeding tube.

AS I write, Terri Schiavo is not yet dead. But she is surrounded by death.

THE husband of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo has ordered an autopsy after she dies to silence allegations his plan to cremate her body is aimed at hiding something, his lawyer said yesterday.

An autopsy will be performed after Terri Schiavo dies to show the extent of her brain damage, her husband’s lawyer said.

TERRI SCHIAVO'S parents know their brain-damaged daughter is dying and are "dealing with reality", a family spokesman said yesterday, even as their supporters pledged to take their fight to Washington.

Their hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo’s parents appeared quietly resigned to watching her die, but could claim one Easter victory: The severely brain-damaged woman received a drop of communion wine on her tongue – her only sustenance in nine days – after her husband allowed her to receive the sacrament.

A WRENCHING dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo neared its end yesterday as the brain-damaged Florida woman moved closer to death and her parents gave up their long and bitter legal battle to prolong her life.

Terri Schiavo’s parents asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple’s severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water.

As Terri Schiavo drew closer to death Saturday, a Florida state judge rejected another attempt by the brain-damaged woman’s parents to reconnect her feeding tube, leaving the couple with little hope they could keep her alive.

A state judge in Clearwater, Florida, today rejected another attempt by Terri Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube reconnected, rejecting what the couple’s lawyer described as their last chance to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

A US government appeals court panel refused to order the reinsertion of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, hours after her father said she was weakening and down “to her last hours”.

AS Terri Schiavo’s health waned, a judge yesterday refused to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, thwarting another legal move from the brain-damaged woman’s parents.

AS Christians reflect on Jesus’s death this Good Friday, some also are giving special attention to Terri Schiavo — particularly Catholics who count Ms Schiavo as one of their own, and whose Church has been increasingly vocal this week in calling for the reinsertion of a feeding tube into the brain-damaged Florida woman.

A judge today refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, yet another setback for the parents of the brain-damaged woman in their battle against her husband to keep her alive.

A federal judge has denied an emergency request from Terri Schiavo’s parents to reconnect the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube.

As Terri Schiavo’s health waned, her parents pressed on today to restore the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube after the nation’s highest court and judges in Florida defeated their latest legal appeals.

Florida’s Supreme Court refused today to overturn a judge’s order blocking the state from taking temporary custody of Terri Schiavo, in another setback in her parents’ battle to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive.

A SEVEN-YEAR legal battle was drawing to a tragic end for the parents of Terri Schiavo last night, as last-ditch efforts to have her feeding tube re-inserted were blocked yet again by the courts.

A seven-year legal battle was drawing to a tragic end for the parents of Terri Schiavo tonight, as last ditch efforts to have her feeding tube re-inserted were blocked yet again by the courts.

The US Supreme Court refused to order Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube reinserted today, rejecting a desperate appeal by her parents to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

Terri Schiavo’s parents made a desperate appeal to the US Supreme Court early today, asking justices to order resumption of nourishment for their severely brain-damaged daughter.