Terri Schiavo Autopsy: Manner of Death 'Undetermined'

CNSNews.com ^ | June 15, 2005 | Jeff Johnson

[ladyjane]

So starving someone to death is now known as a 'complication' - that's interesting.

[blueblazes]

Thanks, it's aways been one of my favorites.

[ladyjane]

Granted the Schiavo case stinks, but it's over.

It's over? Not by a long shot. The managed care/ long term care insurance companies need to speed up the dying process a la Schiavo or they will go bankrupt. Too many old folks on the horizon. The baby boomers will sink them if they can't find a way to get rid of them. With the help of the Florida legislature and courts they found a very good way.

[veronica]

There is nothing about the human condition that the Bard didn't understand and write about brilliantly.

[fooman]

You bet. I would like to see analyze these Xrays like many freepers did with Ron Brown.

That was some good analysis back in the day. Any old timers remember?

[Smartaleck]

"I doubt it's common practice for a medical examiner to take x-rays of an entire body"

247 images according to the autopsy report.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I should add, allowing to euthanize when there were even direct relatives willing to care for her.

This was a true lack of JUDGEMENT by a "judge", likely sticking solely to "the letter of the law" and not the spirit, recognizing that erring on the side of caution - life - would have been perfectly acceptable and harmless to "the rule of law".

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually it sounds to me that the ME did a good job, and an unbiased 1. I could be wrong, but it seems so.

[Trinity_Tx]

"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?"

Just another pesky fact some of us tried to tell y'all a zillion times. lol

One more time...

She never had, was said to have had by her doctors, or needed to have, a Heart Attack (MI).

She undoubtedly had a Cardiac Arrest, as her chart states, and the MI explained today.

Her parents' people played on people's ignorance of the difference to make it look like her diagnosis was wrong.

My freeper page and links give more detail, if that isn't clear enough. I'm outta here. ; )

[Smartaleck]

"Meanness?"...was it mean to tell people she could see and follow a balloon, that she could swallow that she could recover, when in fact, according to the autopsy, she couldn't?

[the OlLine Rebel]

I KNOW the REPORT said she didn't have 1.

As I clearly stated, MICHAEL apparently claimed she had a HR.

So, the hitch is that the report contradicts MS's claims she had a HR!

[mountaineer]

247 images according to the autopsy report.

I stand corrected. All the more reason for those making false allegations of abuse to stop their slander (before they get sued).

[the OlLine Rebel]

Incidentally, I find this blindness/balloon part confounding.


What the heck was Terri doing if not eyeing the balloon as it crossed in front of her?

[hondo]

David Brown of the Washington Post writes...

"Terri Schiavo died of the effects of a profound and prolonged lack of oxygen to her brain on a day in 1990, but what caused that event isn't known and may never be, the physician who performed her autopsy said today."

and...

"She died of marked dehydration. She did not starve to death," Thogmartin said. As measured by the balance of salt and water in her body fluids, the dehydration was the most severe he had ever seen. This attested to Schiavo's robust underlying health, and in particular the strength of her heart, the pathologist said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061500512_pf.html

THE DEHYDRATION WAS THE MOST SEVERE HE HAD EVER SEEN. MAY THOSE WHO WANTED TO SEE TERRI SCHIAVO DEAD GET ON THEIR KNEES AND THANK GOD FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE.

[Sioux-san]

MIchael's new wife-to-be wants a Catholic wedding, so Michael needs to be a widower, not a divorcee. The Bishop down in St. Pete never lifted a finger to help Terri.

[Sioux-san]

Michael is a huge guy -- all he needed to do was put his forearm across her throat and push until she couldn't breathe any more. No finger prints, no bruises. But there was a bone scan done, and the doc noted a fractured neck (C-3?). Why didn't the ME reference that report?

[frogjerk]

"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."

I guess Michael needs to pay that money back then...

[blueblazes]

Maybe the ME should confer with the previous Pinellas ME, Dr. Joan Wood, and see what they can come up with between them.

[jess35]

What the heck was Terri doing if not eyeing the balloon as it crossed in front of her?

If you watch that video, you will see a slight lag in time...while he mother moves the balloon in front of Terri's face as Terri moves her head back and forth.

[Sioux-san]

Terri had electrodes left in her brain from some test Michael had her go through out in California. The doc wanted to take out the electrodes when it was obviously not helping. Michael refused to let him do it. The net result was that Terri would never be able to have a MRI because this test is done in a huge cylinder surrounded by extremely strong magnets. These magnets would have pulled the electrodes right out of Terri's head. So, no definitive MRI tests could be done due to that ever thoughtful Michael.