Posted on 06/15/2005 9:18:16 AM PDT by blogblogginaway
LARGO, Fla. -- An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused.
But what caused her collapse 15 years remained a mystery. The autopsy and post-mortem investigation found no proof that she had an eating disorder, as was suspected at the time, Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin said.
Autopsy results on the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman were made public Wednesday, more than two months after Schiavo's death March 31 ended an internationally watched right-to-die battle between her husband and parents that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House and divided the country.
Thogmartin also said she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack and there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death.
She died from dehydration, Thogmartin said.
He said she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth as her parents' requested.
"Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death whether she was fed or hydrated by mouth or not," Thogmartin told reporters.
He also said she was blind, because the "vision centers of her brain were dead."
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He just kept saying "People hear what they want to hear."
Exactly right.
He just couldn't be bothered w/doing some research to get the facts.
Which really blew me away.
I always hear FNC anchors say how they want to SEE FACTS for themselves and not what they are told.
Is Furhman going to be on FNC
tonight, or did he say?
The fact is that the Schiavo case has really brought out the very worst of the Republican and conservative side.
"50% of her brain gone."
A comment about Democrats BEGS to be made here, but I'll show some restraint.
I hear ya!
He is.
You said it!!!! THIS STINKS with coverup!!!!!!!
"Gee, I guess those other earlier medical reports that she had multiple fractures, and some injuries which would have been inflicted by strangulation, must all be the result of incompetent medical examinations"
Can you provide a link to medical reports that said this?
.....what it REALLY has come down to, is showing WHO on the Republican side stands for LIFE and who doesn't. !!!!!!!
Yes, he and Hannity agreed there are a lot of unanswered questions, beginning with: What caused her collapse? Fuhrman clearly has suspicions, which he says are outlined in his book.
Indeed it has. I never knew before how good at pretending to be pro-Life some of them really were.
It also shows who on the right is willing to let a poor woman languish for 15 years in a diaper, with no awareness, with images of her in a very compromised position splashed all over the media, and play on the hopes of her delusional parents, in order to pander to their uber-religious constituency. To me THAT is what is cruel and inhuman.
Aint this that DeJa Vue deal all over again?
I like Mark Furhman I will read his book,however he is not talking much now because he has a book to sell. I dont think anything he said allows one to draw conclusions one way or another on the final events of this case. I think it does question whether the husband should have called the shots though.... but unless he was convicted of a crime I think there is no way to deny his standing .
I chalk this whole thing up as a tragedy and hope God will sort it all out in His own time
I do too - - he says there are a lot of questions that need answering; that Michael Schiavo put out a "load of horse puckey"; and that the autopsy hasn't shown what caused her collapse; also, he said that strangulation can happen without leaving evidence
Certainly there are questions about that, but as far as I can see, the laws of Florida were followed.
Are you in favor of starving alzheimers patients?
It would appear so. According to some.
"Are you in favor of starving alzheimers patients?"
Obviously, no. But of course you knew that, and are just throwing out inflamatory comments. Terri did not have Alzhiemer's. (which, of course, you know)
I'm still curious, why are some people so afraid to let a person spend eternity in Heaven? Is a hospice bed with a diaper and a feeding tube better?
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