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Type.. Terri has been without water or nutrition since Oct. 15 8AM (6 hours before tube was removed at 2PM).

So no food/water for over 4 days then yet she's still alert and doing well? That REALLY makes me think there is a nurse there that actually has a heart and is sneaking her food and water.

Since Terri's body is to be cremated, does her body have to be autopsied?

It seems as though, according to Florida law, her death has to be investigated, even if her body is not autopsied.

Deaths Investigated:

* By criminal violence.
[snip].
* When the body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.

Statutory References:

Florida Stat. Ann. Sections 34.01; 119.07; 382.002(11), 382.008(2)(3), 382.011; 406.01 et seq.; 872.04; 925.09.

Contacts: Stephen J. Nelson, M.D., M.A., F.C.A.P. Chairman Medical Examiners Commission
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
P.O. Box 1489
Tallahassee, FL 32302-1489
(850) 410-8600 or (863) 687-1344
FAX: (850) 410-8621 or (863) 284-1621
Email: SJNelsonMD@aol.com

Vickie Marsey
Program Administrator
Medical Examiners Commission
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
P.O. Box 1489
Tallahassee, FL 32302-1489
(850) 410-8660 FAX: (850) 410-8621

Model Post-Mortem Examinations Act

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS

And by it Approved at its Annual Conference Meeting in its Sixty-Third Year at Chicago, Illinois August 9-14, 1954

Section 4. [Deaths To Be Investigated.] The Office of Post-Mortem Examinations shall investigate all human deaths of the types listed herewith: [snip]
(d) Deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated, dissected, buried at sea, or otherwise disposed of so as to be thereafter unavailable for examination; [snip]