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"It is possible that Terri's eating habits caused her supposed collapse."

Yup. Everything fits, for sure.

"What about all those broken bones?"

That fits too. Remember that women with eating disorders can lose 30% of their bone mass in a year. (Her medical chart also shows her to be undernourished and low in calcium.)

And the only broken bones she had, according to the full deposition of the radiologist was:

- a compression/hairline fracture in lumbar 1, which he said could have happened when she fell (a lot of us are walking around with those - my sister is in her 30s and has numerous ones just from daily living)

- some of her ribs and the parts of the thoracic vertebra they were connected to in the back, which is extremely common after CPR, even in people with strong bones.

That's it.

The rest are just bruises (like her femur), and common joint problems among people in her condition and rehab. The Drs who saw her treated her for those things.

There would also have been outward signs like bruising had she been attacked, and it would no way explain such "severely" low potassium.

"With everything Terri has been through, if she wanted to be dead, she would be. She has shown by her actions, she doesn't want to die. Actions speak louder than words!!!!!!"

I wish the court would just voluntarily enforce the recommendations of the guardian ad litem, Wolfson, appointed to report to Bush.

What I would love more than anything would be to see, as a result of that, her respond to intense therapy, independent of the feeding tube, and able to communicate and enjoy life with her family.

I doubt the broken bones. Particularly at that age. Even if possible it would be extremely rare for BOTH her heart to have stopped AND to have simultaneously developed all those broken bones at different stages of healing. No one ever said she complained of pain. She would have had to complain to someone of pain (before her collapse). And please don't suggest they all broke after her collapse.

Regardless, even if Michael was not physically abusive of her then, he has been abusive and physically neglectful (another form of physical abuse) of her since. I do NOT believe Michael's hearsay testimony, because it took Michael FIVE years to remember it, and because that recollection is the only "evidence" Michael had to offer the otherwise baseless claim that Terri did not want to be hooked up to tubes. Michael's memory of that passing comment was CRUCIAL and PIVOTIVAL. Without it, JUDGE GREER could not have ordered Terri's feeding tube removed, we would never have heard of Terri Schiavo and we would not be traversing the Schiavo threads today. The entire rational for euthanizing Terri rests on her passing comment that Michael so selfservingly suddenly remembered.

I don't know that I believe Michael's primary motive (though it probably is one of his motives) is money, either. It's something deeper. In conversations with people and in reading over the years, I have come across women who claim that had they given up their child for adoption instead of aborting them, it would haunt them throughout their lives. To them, aborting the child was wiping out that child's existence and erasing the fact that the child EVER existed. I believe such sentiments are operating in this scenario in the person of Michael Schiavo.