How The Internet Made the Schiavo Case an International Story

There have been other food and fluids cases almost identical to Terri Schiavo’s. And these people had higher capacities. For example, Robert Wendland could roll a wheelchair down a hospital corridor and yet, a hospital ethics committee thought it was A-okay to dehydrate him to death. Wendland made news, but nothing like Terri Schiavo did. Why? Think: Internet. I explain.

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