Family to tell Terri Schiavo story in new Warner book Print
Wednesday, 28 September 2005 08:00 PM America/New_York

Warner Books has signed Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings to write a memoir about the controversial, end-of-life struggle that captured the attention of President Bush, the Supreme Court and the Vatican earlier this year.

Schiavo suffered a brain injury in 1990 and died in Pinellas Park, Fla., on March 31 after a feeding tube was removed nearly two weeks before. Her parents wanted to keep her on life support, but her husband, Michael, wanted the feeding tube removed since, he said, Terri would not want to be kept alive in what some doctors called a “persistent vegetative state.”

The Warner title, to be written by Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo, as well as Michael's book, Terri: The Truth (Dutton), written with Michael Hirsh, will be available in March, marking the first anniversary of Terri's death.

All of the proceeds from the yet-untitled memoir will be donated to a foundation the Schindlers have established to protect severely disabled people, according to Warner Books.