[HiTech RedNeck]

The ones that opine there is some living cortex tissue left and the ones that don't, both have no surefire way to tell without opening up the cranium and looking, which would be out of the question.

She'd be an interesting scientific research subject if allowed to live. Just for science's sake, I hope Dr. Hammesfahr is allowed to try his therapy, or what he claims to be such.

[secretagent]

The ones that opine there is some living cortex tissue left and the ones that don't, both have no surefire way to tell without opening up the cranium and looking, which would be out of the question.

Although they do agree on most of the cortex or neocortex missing. Probably a resolution problem - haziness at the margins.

A good argument for an autopsy, but Mr. Schiavo has announced plans for cremation. Perhaps he fears examination of what the bone scan revealed.

She'd be an interesting scientific research subject if allowed to live. Just for science's sake, I hope Dr. Hammesfahr is allowed to try his therapy, or what he claims to be such.

I agree.

[FITZ]

The ones that opine there is some living cortex tissue left and the ones that don't, both have no surefire way to tell without opening up the cranium and looking, which would be out of the question.

Normally in a brain injury, the whole brain is still there --- just parts of it have become inactive from lack of oxygen which destroyed the function of the neurons --- but they neurons don't go anywhere. If her brain is actually physically gone ---- then where did it go? There is a blood-brain barrier --- so it's unlikely the brain got absorbed into the blood stream. Brain tissue doesn't just poof and disappear into thin air.