{"id":303116,"date":"2023-12-10T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303116"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:18:06","slug":"two-decades-terri-schiavo-documentary-short-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/two-decades-terri-schiavo-documentary-short-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly two decades after her death, Terri Schiavo documentary falls short on the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new documentary about Terri Schiavo, “Between Life and Death,” is streaming<\/a> on Peacock, released on December 4th \u2014 Terri’s birthday. Years later, the debate about her life \u2014 and death \u2014 is still getting the facts wrong.<\/p>\n

Terri Schiavo was 26 years old when she suffered massive cardiac arrest, and due to oxygen deprivation, was left with severe brain damage. The story was revisited in the documentary, and her family slammed<\/a> the end result in a press release from the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network.<\/p>\n

“[I]t failed to capture the real human tragedy that was a woman being forcibly starved and dehydrated to death over 13 agonizing days. Further, it was quite unfortunate that the producers chose to frame this story of horrific abuse through a false lens of supposed ‘compassion’ instead of portraying the real story of what transpired,” the statement said of the documentary, adding, “The final product does not present even a fair portrayal of the brutality that Terri had to endure at the hands of Michael Schiavo and the Florida courts, which enabled his actions.”<\/p>\n