Posted on 06/15/2005 8:33:35 AM PDT by george wythe
Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma before her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results released Wednesday of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman.
Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse. He also said she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack and there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death.
He said she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth as her parents' requested.
(Excerpt) Read more at tuscaloosanews.com ...
Did I say that? Seems like you're over reacting to my statement. Hmmm, rereading my comments, I don't see conspiracy in it anywhere.
So according to you, we should starve every blind person to death how doesn't have "quality of live" in your learned opinion?
The ME said that he would like to clarify the often confused terms, heart attack and cardiac arrest.
If by heart attack is meant myocardial infarction, then Terri Schiavo did not suffer a heart attack.
Instead, Terri's heart stopped. A cardiac arrest would be a better description, since it simply means that the heart stopped.
I wonder if the good doc performed a full body scan of Terri. There were multiple trauma sites on the 1992 scan. How can he tell she couldn't swallow? Nurses testified that Terri could swallow, but was never allowed to be tested. What a bunch of crap. This guy may be a state employee, but he lives in Pinellas Co., and that is where his true masters live. None of what he found justified killing this woman. There are kids in public school right now who are just as bad off, and no one is trying to kill them....yet....
Judging from the title, I think they may have autopsied Nacy Pelosi by mistake.
Additionally, any trace of drugs given at a certain point would have been metabolized and not detectable.
Conveniently enough, there is no way to verify these findings because she was cremated so quickly after the autopsy. And no one else but her "loving" husband had ever heard her mention cremation. Odd, considering she was a very devout Catholic. (sorry, was THAT a conspiracy theory there?)
The human body is mostly water. Weighing a brain after severe dehydration and compairing the results to a normal brain is ridiculous.
Does it really matter?
pre-determined "autopsy" ping
Actually the ME did not and can not answer the primary questions at hand but I knew that a long time ago. Those questions are what caused a healthy young girls heart to stop and was she minimally conscious.
My vote: no confidence.
"........sure plays a mean pin ball...."
True enough. Any drugs administered years ago would no longer be present in the body.
Doesn't change his findings - no evidence of abuse. That doesn't prove there wasn't any (try and prove a negative), only that there's no *evidence* of abuse.
I fail to see how this autopsy justifies Euthanasia.
I don't know - I haven't read the report and this excerpt doesn't say.
The ME is not part of the Schindlers' team or the Schiavo team. He is independent with respect to those camps. He did his job in a professional manner, and several tests were conducted on Terri's remains by professionals outside his office.
Why are you impugning his integrity without any proof that the gentleman and his staff are biased?
The husband and the doctors NEVER said it was heart attack. Get the facts. Heart attacks are caused by arterial blockages leading to the heart. What Schiavo had was a heart arrythmia caused by her Bulimia that caused her heart to either stop beating or to beat randomly in such a way that oxygenated blood wasnt being pumped to her brain. Her condition was caused by screwed up body chemistry. What Schiavo has usually leads to sudden death when an individual drops unconscious and their heart no longer beats. She was one of the "lucky" ones who was rescesitated, however, not before she lost most brain functions.
"Yes it does.
Pull the plug on Howie."
No way! He's FAR more detrimental to the Dems as a living person.
Wow, pointing out that there wasn't independent review is impugning his integrity? Rather a low bar you're setting there, isn't it? Questioning the results would really send you over the edge ...
The parts of her brain that were oxygen deprived when her heart stopped beating died. Over time the dead tissue rots away and is replaced by spinal fluid. You cant rehabilitate those parts of the brain that are dead any more than you can rehabilat an arm or leg that is dead because it didnt get oxygenated blood. Dead is dead except for the Resurrection.
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