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"This notion that Terri “never suffered a heart attack” in order to support allegations of some allegation that she was attacked and/or murdered by her husband is more than disingenuous. It is a red-herring intended to mislead the public."

By all means, please hasten to inform the news agencies who continously report that Terri suffered a heart attack, that their reporting is incorrect. Google is currently displaying over 2,570 such articles. See for yourself here.

This grievous "red-herring intended to mislead the public" must have been planted in the media as deliberate disinformation, to obscure the true facts of the case, don't you agree?

The first person that used "heart attack" in the medical context was Hammesfahr as far as I can discern. Prior to his statement the most common used terms were "heart failure" and "cardiac arrest" or simply "arrest". What I believe is objectionable and misleading is that absent stating the fact that Terri suffered a cardiac arrest, they infer that strangulation or injury to her brain by violence is the only explanation for Terri's condition. This simply is not true and misrepresents the facts.

The last time I visited the Terri's Fight Webpage they listed "heart attack as a myth but did not acknowlege a "cardiac arrest."

If you are trying to argue that there was no cardiac event at all, won't wash. Read the hospital report. If your point is that the term "heart attack" is being misused by the press and is misleading, then I have to agree with you.

An interesting and crucial point, a heart attack damages the heart. There is actual tissue destruction. It is demonstrable and permanent. This is because the area deprived of blood is frequently quite small and localizes the damage to the heart. A cardiac arrest however, does not necesssarily damage heart tissue and more often than not does no damage to the heart at all. What cardiac arrests do, and do often, is deprive the entire brain of blood and oxygen and destroys brain tissue. Especially suceptible are the the cerebrum and cebral cortex. This is what happened to Terri Schiavo.