2005年2月25日，佛州最高法院做出判决，同意于3月18日拔去维持泰里生命的进食管，让她安乐死亡。

• Outside the hospice in Pinellas Park where Mrs Schiavo, 41, is living out her 15th year in a persistent vegetative state, protesters stood with red tapes across their mouths proclaiming "Life".