All they need to know is that twenty one court cases and sixteen different judges all reached the same conclusion.
Based on 10 or 15 year old medical data?
Appeals courts are bound by the "facts" presented to the lower Courts.
If you punch in the same flawed data 21 times into a computer program, the computer program will spit out the same flawed answer every time. If you do that 42 more times you will get the same result 42 more times.
As I wrote in another post:
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Would you help us laymen? Can a person with this type of brain damage feel pain, and other stimuli? This death by dehydration seems terribly cruel to me, and sounds very painful. .............FBD
Well, first of all, I have absolutely no idea what "this type of brain damage" is since the Michael Schiavo side seems to have done everything they could to prevent the complete workup that would be done if exactly the same type of patient named "Jane Doe" presented to a Neurology Department at St. Elsewhere Medical Center in the year 2005.
That is what bothers me about this case.
Here we have Judge Greer, a Probate Judge who has a mindset that tells him that a dead body is part of his job and would not know his own caudate nucleus from his dentate line if his own life depended on it making decisions based on what, in the year 2005, would be considered ancient medical data.
Terri Schiavo could have cortical functions and some degree of consciousness for all I know.
Terri Schiavo could be nothing more than a brain stem giving marching orders to her vital organs for all I know.
I have no idea.
All I know is that Judge Greer and Michael Schiavo are dead set (no pun intended) in making sure that Terri Schiavo does not get assessed with year 2005 technology and therapy trial.
In regards to death by dehydration, I have seen it often in elderly patients and the current medical conventional wisdom says that the patient feels nothing. Then again, no patient has come back from the grave to give me a report.
For me, personally, it gives me the creeps and I have told my family that if it ever gets to that point that they should "accidentally" turn up the morphine drip and let me go fast as I do not want to take the chance that my last ten days will be spent in a twilight sleep with a sensation of raging thirst.
Judge Refuses to have feeding tube reinserted in Terri Schiavo (FOX NEWS ALERT)...1,138 posted on 03/23/2005 6:46:21 AM PST by Polybius