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To: voltaires_zit
Was Mrs. Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state? Persistent vegetative state is a clinical diagnosis arrived at through physical examination of living patients. Postmortem correlations to the persistent vegetative state have been recorded in the literature, and pathologic findings described. However, the findings vary with the ideology or the cause of the adverse neurological event.

How does this statement by Dr. Thogmartin, any other statement by him, anything contained within the actual autopsy report, or any of the accompanying documents prove that Terri's brain was dead, as you claimed? How does it prove that Michael's doctors were lying on the stand when they testified that Terri was aware? How does it prove that at the time Michael's doctors examined Terri and determined that she was aware and could see, that she was brain dead and blind?

Postmortem findings, including the state of the body and laboratory testing, showed that she died of marked dehydration.

How does this prove that she was dead before she was dehydrated?

You've made some false claims, and continue to refuse to back them up. Now you're adding comparisons to Karen Quinlan, who remained on a feeding/hydration tube until the moment she died. Naturally her brain was not dehydrated like Terri's was. The fact that Terri's brain was dehydrated does not prove that she was brain dead prior to the dehydration. You'll have to come up with something better than that.

88 posted on 03/07/2007 9:49:58 PM PST by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. ¨­)
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To: BykrBayb
>> or any of the accompanying documents prove that Terri's brain was dead

Terri wasn't brain dead. No doctor ever diagnosed her as brain dead. It was perfectly obvious she was not, because she could breathe without assistance. It will come as a shock to our instant neurologists but Karen Ann Quinlan was not brain dead either. She lived nine years after they took her off the ventilator. Nor was Nancy Cruzan. None of them needed life support.

"Brain dead" is usually trash talk by the media and their gullible audience.

95 posted on 03/08/2007 12:25:50 AM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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