Terri's law: the limit of the Florida legislature to decide an individual's right to die.

Less than two years later, on March 18, 2005, Terri's feeding tube was removed for the last time. 4 Thirteen days later on March 31, 2005, she died.5 Ironically, what began as personal decision evolved into a test of not only the Florida Constitution, but also a check on our structure of governmental powers. In the end, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a shy person who hated the spotlight, polarized a nation on deciding whether she would have wanted to die. Her husband, parents, the Florida courts, the federal courts, the Florida legislature, the Governor of Florida, the U.S. Congress, the President, and even Pope John Paul II weighed in on Terri's fate. 7 The high-profile battle over Terri Schiavo's fate, a Florida woman who spent almost fifteen years in a vegetative state, brought "[l]aw, medicine and political grandstanding" together in the most tragic and bitter end-of-