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Schiavo Findings Won't Be Rushed
The St. Petersburg Times ^ | May 9, 2005 | Leonora LaPeter

Posted on 05/09/2005 5:30:34 AM PDT by tbritton

Schiavo findings won't be rushed

Despite conflicting calls for thoroughness and quick results, Jon Thogmartin won't let appeals from the public force his hand.

LARGO - People around the world have talked about the life and death of Terri Schiavo, but Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin will get the last word.

For the past month, he has been working on her autopsy. She has taken over his office and consumed his working hours. He appeared for an interview in blue scrubs, looking every bit the wiry medical examiner with his bald head and tiny wire-rimmed glasses.

"That's her and that's her," he says, pointing to piles of documents and boxes of slides stacked all over his office.

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Thogmartin, 41, knows Schiavo's autopsy will probably be the most publicized of his career. He won't talk about it until he is done and estimates it will be two or three more weeks.

He has received hundreds of letters and e-mails about the brain-damaged woman who died March 31, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Many ask him to look for signs she wasn't brain-dead or signs of abuse, among the allegations made during the protracted battle between her parents and her husband over whether to keep her alive.

"They are of no consequence to me," says Thogmartin of the letters.

The lively Texan, publicity shy and fiercely protective of his wife's and child's privacy, is known for doing everything by the book. He denied requests from Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her husband, Michael Schiavo, to allow their own pathologists to observe the autopsy.

"It is routine in cases of criminal importance to not allow any biased pathology advocates in the morgue," he said. "I'm the independent pathologist."

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KEYWORDS: schiavo; schindler; terri; terrischiavo
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To: chuckles

I agree.

A) Cause of death is a given. Lack of hydration.

B) The confirmation of multiple broken bones goes a long ways towards confirming that she was abused.

C) Everyone knows 'PVS' was a phony diagnosis. She responded regularly to her family, friends and caregivers. No autopsy can possibly show which parts of her brain were active.


21 posted on 05/09/2005 7:17:34 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: joesbucks
People who live in this society and don't understand the fact that there really are conspiracies all around us are naive indeed.

They don't have a clue that both elements of the Government are now ultimately corrupt and that the people are nothing more than ants to be brushed aside when they are no longer productive.

I do envy the naive. After all, ignorance is bliss. They will be wondrously happy right up until their final moments when some angel of death sticks a needle in their arm.
22 posted on 05/09/2005 7:29:31 AM PDT by russesjunjee (Shake the fog from your eyes sheople! Our country is swirling down the sewer!)
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To: EternalVigilance

The whole world knows the cause of death: Lack of hydration.
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Wow! That's amazing! And you never even saw the body!

Have you ever considered becoming the EternalCoroner ??? ;-))


23 posted on 05/09/2005 7:40:15 AM PDT by GeekDejure ("That may be too late!" -- Laura)
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To: Tigen

Exactly, why the would the guy say "criminal" like that? HMMM, makes me wonder.

I think we may not know what is really going on, but there may be an investigation on Terri's death that is being kept secret at this point. Would be nice to know, but if there is, than thank God!


24 posted on 05/09/2005 7:41:25 AM PDT by Halls
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To: GeekDejure

DUH, she died of dehydration, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. The Coroner is looking for other things as well, like if she was PVS, the broken bones, etc... But she most certainly died of deydration!


25 posted on 05/09/2005 7:43:30 AM PDT by Halls
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To: EternalVigilance

Let's see, now many people standing behind the rope had water to share and didn't?


26 posted on 05/09/2005 7:43:39 AM PDT by joesbucks (Daniel 3)
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To: Halls

DUH, she died of dehydration, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
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DUH, looks like you can't recognize sarcasm without < sarcasm > !!! ;-))


27 posted on 05/09/2005 7:49:30 AM PDT by GeekDejure ("That may be too late!" -- Laura)
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To: GeekDejure

That was sarcasm? I think anyone, not just me would have gotten that a bit confusing.


28 posted on 05/09/2005 8:03:04 AM PDT by Halls
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To: joesbucks
Let's see, now many people standing behind the rope had water to share and didn't?

You mean on the other side of the rope from the jackbooted thugs with German Shepherds, pistols, tasers and the SWAT team?

29 posted on 05/09/2005 8:03:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Tungenchek
More time for the conspiracy wonks...

More time to prove that her starving herself in the first place caused her coma... more like. But I am sure anything proving Michael wasn't responsible will of course mean conspiracy for you. I will accept whatever the findings are by an educated physician. Not cry conspiracy before we have any answers as so many already have.

30 posted on 05/09/2005 8:08:57 AM PDT by Bigturbowski
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To: EternalVigilance

What happened in Daniel chapter 3?


31 posted on 05/09/2005 8:17:44 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

Why don't you tell us, Mr. Bible Scholar?


32 posted on 05/09/2005 8:19:30 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: EternalVigilance
Ah, but you are the one who believes in these absolutes. This historical recolection is an absolute. Don't you put your trust in it?

Clearly your faith and those who faced the jackbooted thugs with german shepherds and tasers and a SWAT team didn't. So you claim to stand on your convictions all the while cowering in the cowardice of your cliches.

33 posted on 05/09/2005 8:35:13 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

So, you're saying that the vigilers should have rushed the police.


34 posted on 05/09/2005 8:41:03 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: EternalVigilance
I'm not saying what they should do. Since I wasn't there, I don't know what all the options were. That is a decsion those on the line needed to make.

I don't think in Daniel 3 anybody rushed anybody. But what they did in the name of the Lord, they were protected. You and your hundreds of friends just stood there. For all intents and purposes, you bowed to Nebuchadnezzar because of your fear of the jackbooted, german shepherd protected, tasered equipped and back up by SWAT team thugs.

35 posted on 05/09/2005 8:50:25 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: EternalVigilance

Don't bother arguing with some of these posters. It doesn't matter what you say, they will take the other side. That's all they do on FreeRepublic.


36 posted on 05/09/2005 8:50:32 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Bigturbowski

I am sure anything proving Michael wasn't responsible will of course mean conspiracy for you.



If that is what you are sure of --and it works for you, then who am I to complain. :o)

Personally I have watched a person removed from tubes die. She refused to eat, refused food and water and tore out any tubes ....
She died quite peacefully..as she wanted...against the wishes of her family.

Also I came down on the side of Micheal.
I am in a similar situation. I dont want others second guessing my decisions....whether that is to pull the plug or not.

I am baffled by those who think it was immoral.
But found nothing immoral about pulling the plug in other cases....

I am still scratching my head over that one.

I guess I am just an amoral guy of fella.


37 posted on 05/09/2005 8:53:43 AM PDT by Tungenchek
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To: joesbucks

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee


38 posted on 05/09/2005 8:54:33 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

I guess we'll all be judged for our actions or inaction, eh?


39 posted on 05/09/2005 8:56:26 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: EternalVigilance

Proverbs 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.


40 posted on 05/09/2005 8:56:41 AM PDT by joesbucks
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