Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a bitter right-to-die dispute, died Thursday morning, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. INDEPTH: Terri Schiavo ...

Ying says feeding tubes are often started with the intention of prolonging a person's life. Yet, "there is no evidence to show they help with survival," she says.

"The feeding tube was left inside for 35 years… that’s my whole life," she said, bursting into tears. "They took my whole life. I was only 25 years old and I couldn’t have no more kids.