RT Article T1 When I Woke Up … A Journey with Terri Schindler-Schiavo JF Journal of religion, disability & health VO 7 IS 4 SP 73 OP 90 A1 Cooper-Dowda, Rus LA English YR 2004 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1766039685 AB Rev. Rus Cooper-Dowda writes about Terri Schindler-Schiavo, a woman the courts recently declared can be starved to death for being too disabled. The author was once in that situation. Here she shares both stories about being perceived as being better dead than different. The following was written during and after a fall 2002 hearing over whether there is a right to rehabilitative therapy. A preliminary version of this article has also been published by The Edmonds Institute as one of their “Occasional Papers.” Earlier versions of the material have also appeared on the Website of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, Ragged Edge Online, www.Ican.com, and on the listserv of the International Network on Bioethics and Disability. K1 disability rights K1 Not Dead Yet K1 Terri Schiavo K1 better dead than disabled K1 medical misdiagnosis K1 message boards K1 persistent vegetative state (PVS) K1 Right to die DO 10.1300/J095v07n04_07