Terri Schiavo died 10 years ago Tuesday, but the ethical questions at the center of her highly publicized U.S. Supreme Court case still resonate today, a prominent bioethicist writes at NBC News. Schiavo's legacy still has implications for right-to-die debates, says Arthur L. Caplan, a bioethics professor at New York University Langone Medical Center. Schiavo, 41, had spent nearly half her life in a vegetative state after suffering cardiac arrest in 1990, resulting in brain damage. The protracted and politically charged case surrounding her husband's plea to not keep her artificially alive spurred fierce debate before a Florida judge eventually sided with her husband and ordered that Schiavo's feeding tube be removed, thus ending her life.
