[T'wit]

>> On another note, a friend told me that dehydrating Terri would in fact have dehydrated her brain as well, making it shrink.

I don't believe that's so. The brain had suffered atrophy years ago and was stable. The missing tissue was replaced by a fluid, still present at her death.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

No, the dehydration definitely shrunk her brain. Every organ in Terri's body was shrunk, dehydrated and severely damaged in the dehydration/starvation.

For the autopsy, they had to soak Terri's brain in some chemical as they would anyone's brain that they had to look at and section, to make it firmer so that they can section the brain.

Not rehydrate her brain per se but this process is what they do to all brains they want to section.