Protesters hold a candlelight vigil outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, March 26, 2005, where the brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo is being cared for. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, urged dozens of supporters gathered outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for to go home for Easter. (Reuters photo)

    BEIJING, March. 27 -- The parents of an American brain damaged woman have lost another legal appeal to have her feeding tube reconnected.

    The father of Terri Schiavo, Bob Schindler, says she is putting up a tremendous battle to live after her feeding tube was disconnected over a week ago.

    "She doesn't want to die, and she's showing signs of over a week now of starvation and lack of hydration," said Bob,"Anyone that has the authority to come in and to save Terri, they can do it. It is not too late."

    Bob and Mary Schindler claimed in the motion filed on Friday that their daughter tried to say "I want to live" just before her feeding tube was removed.

    Doctors have said Schiavo's past utterances were involuntary moans consistent with someone in a vegetative state.

    David Gibbs III, the Schindlers' lead attorney, described the motion before Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer as the couple's last legal option.

    He said the couple had ended their federal appeals less than a week after Congress passed an extraordinary law to let them take the case to federal court.

    The 41-year-old woman suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance.

    Michael Schiavo, Terri's husband, says she would not want to be kept alive artificially.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)