Posted on 06/15/2005 7:21:37 PM PDT by familyop
(You and I differ on the motives of the people involved.)
Parents who are loving and willing to take on the responsibility of their daughter have the best motives I can think of. We will never know if a different outcome was possible.
We KNOW the "so called" husband motive was for her to die, to rid himself of this lady, but why? It was not because he wanted to move on with his life, he had already done that, so WHY?
I can see no motive from the President and Congress point of view. It is not like they gained any money as the "so called" husband did.
That's a laugh. The autopsy is irrelevant, because whether she would ever recover fully is not the issue.
It doesn't change a thing! It is still criminal to starve
a person to death when the person's family is willing to
care for her. It is downright unchristian!
There is a difference between dehydration and atrophy and the examiners are well aware of which is which.
I would think so...
...US examiner concludes that brain damage was irreversible ...
So what. That is not what is at issue. The issue is was it degenerating?
Not fast enough for Suncoast Hospice to avoid scrutiny under Medicare guidlines.
You watch. The investigation into Suncoast Hospice for Medicare Fraud is going to come out eventually. They were not operating within those guidlines.
Where were you today, young man?
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I'm not surprised at the size of Terri's brain, after a month of dehydration.
They said Karen Carpenter's stomach was as big as a raisin when she starved herself to death. I suppose that was a bit of an exaggeration to scare all the anorectic young girls.
Avoiding these threads like the plague.
Good question. ??? I'm not a medical person.
I think her marriage should have been cut off before her medical care was cut off, but that's just me.
FOTFL! Smartie!
I see someone else got the "growing new brain cells"
link out before I could! And what was the biggest recent
medical discovery (according to Discover mag of Feb or
Mar or Apr of this year)? NEUROGENESIS. Got it?
When hypernatremic dehydration occurs, the brain shrinks.
The way I read the report, he defers to a diagnosis of PVS and merely states it is a clinical diagnosis made while the patient is alive.
You are right, of course. This is the kind of case that separates the wheat from the chaff, if you will.
How misleading is that title?????
But the cause of her collapse and the time lapse between IT and the call to 911 15 years ago remains a mystery
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