I have done nothing to earn your scorn, thank you very much.
I've read enough of it. I also do not believe that there is a vast conspiracy in all the media, including Fox News, to disinform the public as to its contents.
Have you read the whole thing? Would you care to tell me where specifically my opinion is incorrect?
Frankly I don't care what your opinion is. Go away!
"Instead of clearing up the many questions concerning the life and death of Terri Shiavo, the report on the autopsy of her remains only raises even more questions. Rather than confirming the many dubious claims of her husband, his lawyers and their allies in the media about her real condition and its cause, it strongly suggests that the claims were unsupported by the facts.
Moreover, instead of being conducted free of any possible bias, the medical examiner largely relied on the so-called medical records supplied by one of Michael Schiavo's lawyers.
According to the authoritative TEJ, the major source of inside information about Schiavo case, the medical examiner, Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner (ME) Jon Thogmartin said he based some of his autopsy findings on medical reports and records provided by Gary Fox.
Fox was one of two medical malpractice attorneys for Michael Schiavo.
In fact, Thogmartin specifically stated that he could not have completed the autopsy without those records and said that the case would have to remain open because many records of the case, now unexplainably missing, might someday become available.
Wrote Thogmartin: "It is the policy of this office that no case is ever closed and that all determinations are to be reconsidered upon receipt of credible new information, In addition to fading memories, the 15-year survival of Mrs. Schiavo after her collapse resulted in the creation of a voluminous number of documents many of which were lost or discarded over the years. Receipt of additional information that clarifies outstanding issues may of shall cause an amendment of her cause and manner of death."
He adds: "What was the cause and manner of death? Mrs. Schiavo suffered a severe anoxic brain injury. The cause of which cannot be determined with reasonable medical certainty. The manner of death will therefore be certified as undetermined."
In that statement Thogmartin appears to agree with Michael Schiavo's assertion that his wife "had died fifteen years earlier."
Yet if that Terri actually died during her 1991 "accident" and that she was being "artificially kept alive" in spite of the fact that her body was "shutting down," why did Dr. Thogmartin state that Terri was "a relatively healthy woman who could have easily survived another 10 or 15 years."
'The Living Dead'
Says Troy Newman of Operation Rescue, "It seems as though Dr. Thogmartion and his cohort medical examiners are creating a third class of human - the living dead. There are those of us who are alive, those who are dead, and now thanks to the Orwellian Thought Police, we have those, like Terri, who were somewhere in between life and death, hovering in a zombie-like existence."
Added to that, Thogmartin's refusal to allow an independent medical expert chosen by Terri's parents, the widely acclaimed Alleghany County Medical examiner Dr. Cyril Wecht, or even one chosen by Terri's husband Michael for that matter, to observe the autopsy procedure raises serious doubts that his report on the post mortem examination was unbiased.
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SHE DIED FROM HAVING NOURISHMENT AND WATER WITHHELD FOR 13 DAYS AS ANY OF US WOULD DIE IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE! ========================================================
Schiavo Autopsy Only Muddies Case
"As stated earlier, Terri's condition was brought about when her brain was deprived of oxygen for an elongated period of time. The initial explanation for this was that she suffered from an eating disorder, Bulemia, or that she had a heart attack. The autopsy ruled both out, leaving the cause of her collapse an open question.
According to Terrisfight.org, the record shows that after the "accident," her husband Michael called Terri's brother Bobby who lived in the same apartment complex. He then called Terri's father (who said, "Call 911!!") and then called his lawyer. He did not call 911 first.
He called his lawyer?
According to the police reports, when the paramedics got there, Terri was face-planted in the carpet. Michael did not turn her over as he testified. If he'd only turned her over and tried CPR, perhaps she'd have gotten enough oxygen to be less brain damaged/impaired........."
In their extensive investigation of the Schiavo case, TEJ found that "it is indisputable that Terri Schindler-Schiavo sustained brain damage as the result of a suspicious incident at her Florida home, which occurred sometime during the evening of Feb. 24, 1990 or the early morning hours of Feb. 25, 1990, which resulted in the deprivation of oxygen to her brain for four to six minutes.
The stated cause of Terri's injuries was said to be an alleged cardiac arrest resulting from a potassium imbalance due to an eating disorder. However, medical and forensic experts have dispelled that with medical evidence and publicly stated that a crime of strangulation, attempted murder, occurred.
The family believes that Michael Schiavo and Terri had a violent argument earlier in the evening she collapsed and the medical evidence seems to support, that Terri Schiavo may have been a strangulation victim that evening.
The hospital admittance records from 1990 show evidence of trauma to Terri Schiavo's neck. Her friends have testified during court proceedings that she was unhappy in her marriage to Schiavo and was allegedly contemplating a divorce from Michael Schiavo who was allegedly possessive and jealous.
Although the police report taken Feb. 25, 1990, by the St. Petersburg Police Department indicates that the incident should be routed to the homicide division, it was not and no criminal investigation of the matter has ever been conducted. According to the police report, the two officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department responding to the call were Philip Brewer and Rodney Tower. Perhaps one of the reasons there was virtually no investigation of the entire matter (officers arrived at 6:33 a.m. and completed their "investigation" at 8:55 a.m.) was that Tower was only a probationary officer.
"There are three forms of strangulation - hanging, ligature and manual. Almost all attempted or actual homicides by strangulation involve either ligature or manual strangulation, according to a manual regarding the investigation and prosecution of strangulation cases written by Gael B. Strack, San Diego assistant city attorney; and Dr. George McClane, emergency physician. The manual was edited by David C. James, deputy city attorney for San Diego and was updated in May, 1999.
According to that manual:
Ten percent of violent deaths in the U.S. each year are due to strangulation, six females to every male. Ligature strangulation is strangulation with a cord-like object, also referred to as garroting, and many include anything from a telephone cord to articles of clothing. Manual strangulation, throttling, is usually done with the hands, but notable variants include using the forearms, as when police officers used carotid restraint, to standing or kneeling on the victim's throat.
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The general clinical sequence of a victim who is being strangled is one of severe pain, followed by unconsciousness, followed by brain death. The victim will lose consciousness by any one or all of the following: blocking of the carotid arteries (depriving the brain of oxygen), blocking of the jugular veins (preventing deoxygenated blood from exiting the brain) and closing off the airway, causing the victim to be unable to breath. Only 11 pounds of pressure placed on both carotid arteries for 10 seconds is necessary to cause unconsciousness.* However, if pressure is released immediately, consciousness will be regained within 10 seconds. After 50 seconds of continuous oxygen deprivation, the victim rarely recovers."