[daylate-dollarshort]

Irrelevant to the Schiavo case.

This young lady was not diagnosed as having a cerebral cortex virtually void of living tissue. Dead tissue does not conduct brain waves.

This young lady was never diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state- only as being in a coma.

The only question here is whether her insurance company failed to provide rehabilitative care and that question seems to have been left unanswered by this article.

[TigersEye]

Pathologist's statement in Terri Schiavo case - an affadavit.

5. Based on my experience and my observations, Mrs. Schiavo is clearly aware of her environment and interacts with it, albeit inconsistently. She is able to comprehend spoken language, and can, at least inconsistently, follow simple one-step commands. This is documented both in the MediPlex records and in the following behaviors noted in the following video segments:

Can't do those things if there aren't any brainwaves. I guess Maria Tetto is relevant to Terri's case.

[shhrubbery!]

This young lady was not diagnosed as having a cerebral cortex virtually void of living tissue. Dead tissue does not conduct brain waves.

You don't know that about Maria's case. The article does not say whether Maria had brain scans; and if she did, what they showed.

And, for that matter, you don't know that what you've asserted is true about Terri, either. All you have, in Terri's case, is the word of her so-called husband and his pro-euthanasia lawyer that the "cerebral cortex is virtually void of living tissue." (And what does "virtually" mean here, anyway?) I have not heard any doctor verify this.

For your statement to be believable, it would be necessary for new scans to be done, and interpreted by several independent doctors, not shills hired by Schiavo.

Even then, it's my understanding that doctors cannot be 100% sure of their interpretation of brain scans. It takes an autopsy for that -- and, hmmmmmmmmm, Schiavo has ordered that there be no autopsy upon Terri's death.

So it's not clear that these purported scans are "relevant," either. Maybe they could give some indication of whether Terri could be rehabiliated, or maybe not. What is the ethical reason for forbidding her parents to even try?

As for "relevance":

...Frank Tetto said doctors didn't believe at first that his daughter really smiled. The Tettos held their daughter's hand and she squeezed back. Doctors said that was a reflex rather than a sign of conscious behavior, said the Tettos...

The Tettos said they had to convince doctors and insurance companies that their daughter would benefit from various kinds of therapy and come all the way out of a coma, and one day talk to them.

Substitute "the Schindlers" for "the Tettos," and "Michael Schiavo" for "insurance companies." Looks pretty relevant to me.