[huck von finn]

Schiavo has very little cerebral cortex left, period. There is spinal fluid where the cortex should be.

Quinlan's problem was related to the thalamus, not the cerebral cortex, as assumed initially, but at least hers wasn't gone.

[MarMema]

There is spinal fluid where the cortex should be.

And you know this to be true, how?

[MarMema]

A. read it in the St. Petersburg Times

B.read it in the NYTimes

C.read it in the Enquirer

[MHGinTN]

I would be very interested in see the documentation from which you base this assertion ... and I have sufficient medical background to understand it, so don't be shy.