Between Life and Death - The Terri Shiavo Story
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Between Life and Death revisits the story of Terri Schiavo, a decade long saga that captivated the country with the intersection of faith and politics that reverberate to this day. At 26 years old Terri suffered a brain injury that left her in a persistent vegetative state, with no hope of recovery. While Terri's husband wanted to let her die, her parents insisted she be kept alive. What began as a family dispute in local Florida courts escalated into an international news event and seminal right to die legal battle that played out at the highest level of government. Politicians and the religious right used Terri's story and the power of the "pro life" movement to lay the groundwork for a post-Roe America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the psych legal podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:14.7 | Today we are going to be talking about a documentary. |
| 0:17.8 | It's called Between Life and Death, the Terry Shivo story. It's on Peacock. |
| 0:28.0 | And it's not the free version. You have to like pay for the, I don't know, $5.99. But you can just, you know, watch it, cancel it. It's very good. |
| 0:39.5 | It's worth, it's worth watching. And, you know, I think this is my favorite kind of documentary |
| 0:45.4 | is where you, they go back and look at a big event that happened, you know, 20 years ago |
| 0:52.7 | and look at it through the lens of today. And, you know, 20 years ago and look at it through the lens of today. |
| 0:57.0 | And, you know, how, you know, just like like Monica Lewinsky or, you know, these things that, like, |
| 1:03.2 | big things that happen in the culture. And then 20 years later, like, how do people view it now? |
| 1:09.4 | What happened? What was the result? What was the |
| 1:12.3 | aftermath? And so this story is part of the, what was the beginning of the right to life movement. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, it had been around, you know, there had been a lot of anti-abortion stuff |
| 1:28.9 | even before this, but this is where the end of life and beginning of life, you know, which are |
| 1:36.2 | two sides of the same coin, the whole idea about how someone should die or should someone be allowed to die, should they be allowed to live? |
| 1:48.0 | Like all those kind of questions coalesced into a organized political movement. |
| 1:58.1 | And so this case started that. And so it was very interesting to look back on it. Well, and it's funny, too, because when you suggested this, it's like, oh, I know that case. I know Terry Shibow. And I knew it was about right to life, her dying, but I didn't know all the details. |
| 2:19.6 | And I think that's what a lot of people know about this case, right? |
| 2:22.5 | Is because I was at my, I have two pugs and we go to a Pug Sunday meetup. |
| 2:28.6 | And I was there this morning. |
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