The Reverend Jesse Jackson issued a statement Tuesday calling for the reinsertion of the feeding tube that kept Terri Schiavo alive for 15 years.

Jackson released the statement as he visited the hospice where Shiavo is dying at the invitation of Schiavo’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.

He is urging Schiavo’s supporters to bring the “same passion” to the fight against world hunger.

Schiavo has been without water or food for 12 days and reports indicate she could live for hours, or days.

The Schindler’s attorney, David Gibbs, visited the hospice and told reporters Schiavo “looks thin” and is “obviously losing weight.”

Members of Schiavo’s family say the 41-year-old woman is still fighting to live.

“The look on her face is ‘please help me,’” said Schiavo’s sister, Suzanne Vitadamo after visiting the hospice Monday.

Terri Schiavo is emaciated, but responsive, said her father Bob Schindler in a brief statement to reporters late Monday morning outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo has survived for almost 11 days without water or nutrition.

“She’s alive, she’s fighting like hell to live and she’s begging for help, ”Schindler told reporters.

“We haven’t given up on her and she hasn’t given up on us,” he said.

Schiavo's death is unlikely to end the feuding between the brain-damaged woman's family and her husband.

Both sides have battled for years over whether Schiavo lives or dies and now the two sides can't agree on what should happen to her body after death.

Schiavo’s parents had asked a court to allow Terri to be buried in Florida with her body intact, but the judge refused to intervene in Michael Schiavo's plans to have Terri cremated and interred in their native Pennsylvania.

The Schindlers also wanted to take photographs and video of their daughter before she dies, but Michael Schiavo opposed it and a judge has agreed with him.

Michael Schiavo has requested an autopsy once his wife dies to answer lingering questions about the extent of brain damage and vague allegations of abuse.