Terri Schiavo, 41, Dies in Hospice

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Published March 31, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Terri Schiavo has died in a Florida hospice at the age of 41. The brain-damaged Florida woman became the focus of a legal, political and ideological battle over the end of life.

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