State Law Provides for Autopsy for Terri Schiavo

Florida Statutes ^ | 2004 | State of Florida

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[gakrak]

i think 12(c) could do the trick.Amen.

[imfleck]

One could argue that once dead, the shell that housed the spirit is nothing more than property...

In any event, if this were the other way around and it were Michael and not Terri, I could just as easily have said:

"Again, an autopsy would be a waste of time and money. The woman should be allowed to cremate his husband, post haste, when he dies, if that's what she wants to do."

If you have the opinion that I was saying that women are "chattle" then I'm sorry to have mislead you.

[imfleck]

There are 100 cases in America every day similar to this one so I don't think there's much value in an autopsy (other than to pacify the curious).

[SolutionsOnly]

Is is in the decoupling of law from moral values that the association exists. Laws are supposed to be a reflection of societal values. And when society says that it is permissible to starve/dehydrate someone to death, it has devolved into the same level of barbarity, cruelty, and inhumanity as many other secular totalitarian states that have come and gone before us. The arguments to justify, dehumanize, and rationalize are echos from the past. Now that we have a new legal precedent, what new evil will this precedent be used to justify?

You may condone putting someone to death in such a grisly and callous manner. But I do not. The least one can do is have the intellectual and moral courage to confront the issue and either terminate a life humanely or not. But the effort to dehumanize and desensitize with arguments like 'Quality of life...', 'Burden to society...', 'Wouldn't have wanted it this way...' Have been heard before. In the end, there is no excuse for starving/dehydrating someone to death over a two week period. Farm animals are treated better than that.

Being starved to death. Imagine it.

[Leatherneck_MT]

so which of those listed reasons apply?

I don't see one that triggers an autopsy...

(c) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.

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[imfleck]

What if my request were that I not be given liquids/nutrition in the event that I were in a PVS? Would it then be okay for society to give permission for that to happen?

I would think that starving to death while being aware that I was being starved to death would be horrible.

[SolutionsOnly]

I agree, the psychological anguish of knowing what is happening to oneself is a horrible thought. One would hope that she is unaware. But nobody really knows for certain.

I don't believe that anyone would wish that they be starved to death. Euthanized or unplugged I can understand - because I would fall into that camp. But starved? Never.

[PhilDragoo]

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