“Please take Terri Schiavo into protective custody to see that she receives the rights to which she is entitled to as a human being,” a New York resident wrote in an email to Jeb Bush on March 18, 2005.
The case of Terry Schiavo, a woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990, caught the eye of the nation as her husband fought to have her effectively pulled from life-support by removing her feeding tubes. A state judge had denied the request of Schiavo’s parents to take custodianship of her, and Bush received thousands of emails, mostly from non-Florida residents, pleading him to save Schiavo’s life.
