Link: Die & Live: A Vegetative Woman
　　From left, Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri Schiavo’s sister; Bob Schindler, her father; and Bobby Schindler, her brother, stand Monday outside Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., where Schiavo is being cared for.

　　Described by her father as weak and emaciated, Terri Schiavo clung to life Monday, as police stepped up security outside her hospice room and demonstrators prayed for last-minute government intervention in her case.

　　Supporters of prolonging the severely brain-damaged woman’s life carried their protests to the White House and Congress, while her father repeated his plea that she be kept alive.

　　“She’s still communicating, she’s still responding. She’s emaciated, but she’s responsive,” Bob Schindler told reporters after a morning visit with his daughter, saying that she showed facial expressions when he hugged and kissed her. “Don’t give up on her. We haven’t given up on her, and she hasn’t given up on us.”

　　Schiavo, 41, was in her 11th day without the feeding tube that sustained her for 15 years. Her parents pressed again for President Bush, Congress and the president’s brother Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene to have the tube reinserted, and a small group of supporters protested outside the White House gates.

　　Schindler said he recognized that his daughter was dying but insisted that it was not too late to keep her alive, and that she was “fighting like hell to live and she’s begging for help.”

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