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To: voltaires_zit
>> There was 5 times as much cerebrospinal fluid in her skull as should have been there.

>> there was 4 times the cerebro-spinal fluid there should have been in her skull.

And what is your source for whichever of your statements is closer to being true?

93 posted on 03/08/2007 12:10:15 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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To: T'wit

> And what is your source for whichever of your statements
> is closer to being true?

Cute implication. A pity you aren't as dedicated to reality as you are to whatever cause d'jour you're riding a white horse against.

Per the autopsy report (http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/schiavo/61305autopsyrpt.pdf), "A total of 645 milliliters of cerebrospinal fluid (weighing 678 grams) were recovered upon opening the skull and exposing the brain."

Whereas "[a]dults average 140 mL of CSF volume" from http://www.utmb.edu/otoref/Grnds/CSF-Leaks-9905/CSF-Leaks-9905.htm.

The calculated ratio is 4.607, so 5 was technically "closer to the truth" as you so pejoratively put it.

I'll say again, in the absence of a living will and the presence of close relatives willing to care for her, Ms Schiavo's case seems to be an injustice. But on that note, I'm out of this thread because it feels a whole lot like a meeting of the flat earth society.


109 posted on 03/08/2007 7:15:22 AM PST by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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