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Despair and anger outside hospice
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Terri Schiavo’s death was met with sadness, anger, despair and frustration Thursday by supporters of her parents, who had battled the severely brain-damaged woman’s husband over the removal of her feeding tube. Some protesters called her death a murder.
Since March 18, a cadre of fervent demonstrators gathered outside Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., to voice their opposition against Michael Schiavo’s decision to have the woman’s feeding tube pulled. Many supporters slept overnight in tents or sleeping bags, while others held signs and sang songs in their 13-day vigil.
Thursday morning, people burst into tears and threw down the signs they had been carrying as news surfaced that Terri Schiavo had passed away.
”You saw a murder happening,” said Dominique Hanks, who had ridden her motorized wheelchair around the hospice every day since Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed March 18.
”Everybody who denied her right to live are accomplices to murder, and God knows,” Hanks said.
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