The Right To Die; The Right To Live

Podcast: Questions of life and death raised by the Terri Schiavo case.

Lynne of World writes...

In 2005, there was a single, massive news story that divided America—and riveted the world.

By the spring of that year, a severely disabled Florida woman named Terri Schiavo had lived alone in a dark, tiny hospice room for four years. On the morning of March 18, Terri was sitting up in a chair, unhooked to machines of any kind. Her aunt and sister were visiting. As Terri listened to them talk, she was smiling. She had no idea that the State of Florida was about to dehydrate her to death.

You might remember the Terri Schiavo story as a bitter public feud over Terri’s right to die . . . or right to live. As her husband Michael sought to end her life no fewer than six times, the story ignited a media firestorm that pulled in Congress, the American president, and even the Pope.

But there’s so much more to the Schiavo case. Unanswered questions. Unsettling details. That’s why, in collaboration with Nick Eicher and Paul Butler of WORLD Radio, I'm hosting a new, investigative podcast about the case, called Lawless.

Lawless is a true crime podcast that examines a frightening fact of American life: that not every crime is against the law. Listen to the trailer for Season 1 at wng.org/lawless, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Thanks for listening.

Lynn Vincent

New York Times bestselling author and WORLD senior writer