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Perhaps no one in recent memory has gained so much notoriety because of a lack of something than Terri Schiavo. What did she lack? Something that many people also do not have. She never prepared an Advance Directive stating her wishes concerning how she wanted to be treated medically in the event that she could not speak for herself. Had she done so, the fifteen-year-long, agonizing, life and death controversy that roused the American public, its lawyers, doctors, and politicians to heated debate, would most likely have been averted. Her story has much to teach the rest of us. ...