oh, first time I heard about the bulimia angle, cardiac arrest makes perfect sense if that was the case
and people with food disorders are very secretive, it is entirely conceivable that the sister didn't know....at the time, anyway
and there are a number of very classic physical symptoms if you are bulimic ( I saw it on CSI, sorry)
but is it true the husband is insisting on no autopsy, why, it would put so much to rest......not the least of which is the public perception of him
of course if she was bulimic you could blame him, maybe he was like Prince Charles, a cold rigid brute......
At 26, she was strikingly beautiful with delicate features. But she had spent her childhood and high school years as a chubby and shy girl, standing just 5-foot-3 and weighing 200 pounds at her heaviest.
When she finally lost 65 pounds in her late teens, men started to pay attention -- including the man who would become her husband, Michael Schiavo, who was tall and handsome.
But keeping the weight off was a struggle for Terri Schiavo, and years later -- after her heart stopped briefly, cutting off oxygen to the brain -- a malpractice case brought against a doctor on her behalf would reveal she had been trying to survive on liquids and was making herself throw up after meals. The Schiavos' lawyer said her 1990 collapse was caused by a potassium imbalance brought on by an eating disorder.
It is a cruel twist lost on no one close to the case: A woman who is said to have struggled with an eating disorder is now in the middle of a court battle over whether her feeding tube should be removed so that she can starve to death.
someone mentioned Karen Quinlan being an euthanasia case, my understanding is that euthanasia is about actively doing something to make someone die, like give an overdose of morphine, like doctor assisted suicide
ah I saw a documentary on Karen Quinlan case and to the best of my recollection, Karen's case was exactly like Terry's in that the family clung to hope that she would recover, after 5 years or so, they gave up hope but when they wanted to remove all life support the hospital and various religious groups fought them, and when they eventually prevailed, they removed the feeding tube (I can't remember if she was on a respirator too) and sadly she took a few weeks to die
this was a religious family, they were beyond reproach, they loved their daughter very much, and they wanted to let their daughter go to heaven and end her suffering,
I seem to recall that the doctors did take extreme measures to save her initially, the family felt in retrospect it had been God's will that she should have died then