Terri Schiavo Timeline - 2005

2005

• January 24: The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the case.

• February 25: Judge George Greer orders Terri's feeding tube removed on March 18.

• March 11: Media tycoon Robert Herring offers one million dollars to Michael Schiavo if he agrees to waive his guardianship over Terri to her parents. Michael declines.

• March 17: Members of the Florida Legislature consider a bill that would make removing food and water from patients in a persistent vegetative state illegal without a living will. Although the bill is passed by the Florida House of Representatives by a vote of 78 to 37, the Florida Senate defeats a similar measure hours later, 21 to 18.

• March 17: U.S. Senators Bill Frist and Michael Enzi announce that Terri Schiavo would be called to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 28 in Washington. No one expects Terri to testify, but the move extends witness protection to Terri, requiring reinsertion of her feeding tube.

• March 18: Greer strikes down the subpoena as unconstitutional and Terri's feeding tube is removed for the third and final time.

• March 20/21: U.S. Congress approves emergency legislation, the Palm Sunday Compromise.

• March 21: Bob and Mary Schindler file a request for an emergency injunction with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa.

• March 22: Judge James D. Whittemore refuses to order the feeding tube reinserted.

• March 22: Three Florida neurologists view 12 of Terri's CT scans. Dr. Leion Prockop says it was the "most severe brain damage I've seen." Dr. Walter Bradley says that he "doubts there's any activity going on in the higher levels of her brain." Dr. Michael T. Pulley says, "The chance that this person is going to recover is about zero."

• March 23: The Florida Senate again debates this proposed law, which is again rejected, 21 to 18.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta denies the request to reinsert the feeding tube. The three-judge panel rules 2-1.

• March 23: Bob and Mary Schindler appeal again to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• March 24: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to grant certiorari. Judge Greer issues an injunction denying the Florida State government's right to have the Florida Department of Children & Families take over Schiavo's care.

• March 27: Terri is given the Anointing of the Sick ("Last Rites").

• March 30: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta agrees to consider a petition by Mrs. Schiavo's parents to have a new hearing to decide whether the feeding tube should be reinserted. Later that day, the court denies the petition.

• March 31: Terri Schiavo dies at 9:03 AM EST.

• June 15: Autopsy results released.

• June 20: Terri Schiavo is cremated.