Posted on 06/15/2005 12:27:19 PM PDT by veronica
Hasn't this news already been posted on several other threads?
Apparently unless Michael tells, we will never know what happened. My guess is that she was suffocated with a pillow or a large hand over her nose and mouth while she was asleep. That method usually leaves little evidence outside of possible mouth wounds and/or inhaled pillow fibers. Since the original event was not treated as a crime scene, this sort of evidence wouldn't have been noticed much less followed up on.
I should point out that Bill Pryor was one of the 11th circuit judges who refused to hear the case, and he's certainly no euthanasia activist.
The case is over, but the many questions, both ethical and legal that it raised remain worthy of discussion. One hopes adults can discuss these issues without setting their hair on fire or spewing venom.
I seem to recall that the examiner was going to have an "observer" in on the autopsy, but at the last minute forbade any observation. It is not unusual to have bystanders and witnesses at an autopsy--and if an examiner wants to cover his rear for any reason, it's a real good idea for him to have witnesses. If I had been the examiner, I would have wanted a roomful for this contentious case.
The Medical Examiner convinced me that I got this one wrong.
Live and learn.
Newsflash...You can do now medical exams on people while they're alive. You do them in places called "hospitals."
Starving and dehydrating her to examine her is about as smart as the middle ages pracice of bleeding a person to death to heal them.
But it makes sense to your stunted mind I'm sure.
I do believe she was very concerned with staying thin and as result could have suffered a severe loss of potassium. That's fairly common among thin-at-all-cost dieters.
Actually, why not? The Pinellas County ME before this one, Dr. Joan Wood, was forced to resign because of her incompetence and/or corruption in the death of a Scientology member. There is a precedent.
I like that quote. It really fits.
You amaze us all . Are you in the good ole boys club down there in "chad" land . YES the fix was in !!!
Wouldn't an MRI have told the tale of the condition of her brain?
""The courts have found that there was no abuse of Terri, no evidence of abuse, and that's what the medical examiner found," Felos said."
IMO, this isn't even the question. The question is a) letting a man w/virtually no evidence of his own continue on as guardian and even worse b) allow him on this flimsy evidence to euthanize her.
Even worse, "euthanize" via dehydration, et al. Basic needs which took a few weeks to take her, not a short hour or so.
"Remember the lost Xrays of foster? Until we see the xrays of her entire body on the internet, I say the fix is in."
They made 247 images. Which ones do you need?
What the ME has accomplished in this case by refusing to have an independent observer in the room, is to simply leave the case perpetually open. Nothing has been changed or accomplished by the autopsy. Even if he is correct in his findings, he is not credible because Pinellas County has been so rife with corruption even before the Schiavo case.
"Michael Schiavo was awarded nearly $2 million in judgments and settlements in a medical malpractice lawsuit claiming that the collapse was caused by a heart attack triggered by a potassium imbalance, caused by an undiagnosed eating disorder, bulimia nervosa. Thogmartin challenged that determination."
While the Terri nay-sayers love to state that this report shows Michael did nothing wrong, they conveniently ignored this heart-attack part which he claimed. Or was MS just assuming it was a HR?
She was examined many, many times by medical doctors while alive, but you seem to be unaware of that fact. If it makes you feel better about your ignorance to call me names in the manner of a 10-year-old child, have at it.
We agree.
In what way?
The woman died as a result of having a feeding tube removed. Unless "Undetermined" is defined as "starvation/dehydration as a result of removal of a feeding tube," I'd have to agree that Orwellian fits the description of this report.
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