Terri Schiavo

Age: 41

Summary: Florida woman who had spent the last fifteen years as a patient in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), which she had been brain damaged from cerebral hypoxia caused by cardiac arrest since February 1990, but whose feeding tube had recently been removed the third and final time causing widespread controversy.

Cause of Death: Heart failure

Born: December 3, 1963

Died: March 31, 2005

Location: Pinellas Park, Florida