Schiavo dies, 13 days after feeding tube removed

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.

This was 13 days after the tube was removed.

Ms Schiavo, 41, died at 9.05am (1.05pm Irish time) at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lay for years while her husband and her parents fought over her in what was the longest, most bitter and most heavily litigated right-to-die dispute in US history.