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                    [Title] => Pulling the feeding tube
                    [Summary] => One lesson from the tragedy of Terri Schiavo: give your loved ones clear instructions early on about what to do in case you have the misfortune of lapsing into a "persistent vegetative state."


It’s macabre, but it could save your loved ones a lot of grief. We all have to go one day, some unexpectedly much sooner than others. Seeing what has happened to Schiavo and her family, I now consider such instructions as important as getting funeral and cremation insurance (which I already have).
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272142 [Title] => Right to live with dignity [Summary] => The Terri Schiavo case has brought us once again to the delicate question of who decides one’s right to live.

Terri is a 41-year-old woman living in a Florida hospice for 15 years – in a vegetative stage, with no upper brain function. Her husband made the request to end her misery by having her feeding tube removed. It was what she wanted, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Pulling the feeding tube
                    [Summary] => One lesson from the tragedy of Terri Schiavo: give your loved ones clear instructions early on about what to do in case you have the misfortune of lapsing into a "persistent vegetative state."


It’s macabre, but it could save your loved ones a lot of grief. We all have to go one day, some unexpectedly much sooner than others. Seeing what has happened to Schiavo and her family, I now consider such instructions as important as getting funeral and cremation insurance (which I already have).
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272142 [Title] => Right to live with dignity [Summary] => The Terri Schiavo case has brought us once again to the delicate question of who decides one’s right to live.

Terri is a 41-year-old woman living in a Florida hospice for 15 years – in a vegetative stage, with no upper brain function. Her husband made the request to end her misery by having her feeding tube removed. It was what she wanted, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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