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Schiavo Autopsy Finds No Sign of Trauma
Washingtonpost.com ^ | June 13, 2005 | MITCH STACY

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: argueargueargue; disabled; emotionallydisabled; schiaveautopsy; schiavo; stilldead; swindlers; terribots; terrischiavo; terrischindler; veggiebrain
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To: Hank Rearden
The Terripalooza industry will be spinning like a top trying to obfuscate this one.

The fix was in, I tell ya!

41 posted on 06/15/2005 9:48:53 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: RedRover

That's a bit of statement, eh? By the time the ghoul sliced and diced her, she was 100% dead. Every bit of her.


42 posted on 06/15/2005 9:49:27 AM PDT by bvw
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To: aQ_code_initiate

Long term feeding tubes are evil.


43 posted on 06/15/2005 9:49:50 AM PDT by tkathy (Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
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To: aQ_code_initiate
Medical facts are irrelevant to the Terri Schiavo camp followers.

What do you mean by "camp followers", and what "medical facts" are there that permit a judge in a civil proceeding to sentence to death by starvation and dehydration a person who has committed no crime?

Cordially,

44 posted on 06/15/2005 9:51:00 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: sgtbono2002
Poor thing lying blind and not knowing anything happeneing around her and so many wanted more years of this for her.

Just because the vision center of her brain was blind doesn't mean her brain couldn't have compensated somewhere else.

45 posted on 06/15/2005 9:52:10 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Read the red! www.readthered.com)
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To: blogblogginaway
"The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain,"

Considering that she died of intentionally inflicted starvation and DEHYDRATION, is it any wonder that her brain was half the size of a normal brain?

We have to remember that this is from the WaPo, not a credible news organization, so they might find it convenient to omit certain, necessary facts.
46 posted on 06/15/2005 9:53:10 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: knowledgeforfreedom
"As to the "fractures," that idea came from a bone scan which showed "hot spots." Those may indicate healed fractures, but can come from other causes, such as inflammation."

And by your own words, kwfrfr, you spike your own hand. There is the evidence: As you say the "hot spots" may indicate healed fractures and those kind of fractures can be cause by strangulation. You are too cute by half.

47 posted on 06/15/2005 9:54:05 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Tamar1973
Just because the vision center of her brain was blind doesn't mean her brain couldn't have compensated somewhere else.

Like that guy on Star Trek with the shiny hairband over his eyes?


48 posted on 06/15/2005 9:54:11 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: My2Cents

Stop putting everyone in the same category. It is an insult to all disabled people.


49 posted on 06/15/2005 9:54:12 AM PDT by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: Dawgreg
Being a non-conspiracy theorist, I'd have to say it is a cover up.
50 posted on 06/15/2005 9:54:50 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Warning.... Contents under pressure....)
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To: aQ_code_initiate

Whether they "planned" it or not isn't the issue. The outcome was a woman dehydrated to death.


51 posted on 06/15/2005 9:55:03 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: Dave S

Please, please, don't let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy!


52 posted on 06/15/2005 9:55:39 AM PDT by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: mlc9852

Do you think terri's the only person ever to die this way? Some would think her death was easier than her life.


53 posted on 06/15/2005 9:56:26 AM PDT by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: aQ_code_initiate
Spare me the moralizing. You're just indulging yourself in another conspiracy theory, namely that the courts and legislature of Florida, as well as the U.S. courts, planned to murder the woman.

Sometimes what appears to be a conspiracy is nothing more than a set of circumstances that result in an outcome that appears to be the consequence of concerted thought and action. The left-wing bias of the mainstream media is one example of this. It's not a conspiracy, but it practice it looks very much like one.

You sound as if you have something against morality. That's a handicap under which I don't labor.

54 posted on 06/15/2005 9:57:37 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Hildy
So are you advocating euthanasia?
55 posted on 06/15/2005 9:57:58 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: blueblazes

Well we do know that Michael owns the County Sherriff so how hard would it be for him to buy the Medical Examiner. The only way I would have trusted the autopsy is if it was done by the FBI....


56 posted on 06/15/2005 9:58:22 AM PDT by Little_shoe ("For Sailor MEN in Battle fair since fighting days of old have earned the right.to the blue and gold)
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To: Little_shoe

We know that? Wow...$700,000 goes a long way these days....


57 posted on 06/15/2005 9:59:02 AM PDT by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: mlc9852

I'm advocating that all the laws were followed in this case and if you don't like them, work to change them instead of accusing innocent people of unthinkable actions.


58 posted on 06/15/2005 10:00:02 AM PDT by Hildy ( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
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To: bukkdems

Clowns like that will never give up their quest. And the disturbed clique hear will not shut up either. They will just claim that the already gigantic conspiracy has gotten larger in order to fight the "truth" about what happened to TS.

Facts mean nothing to these people.


59 posted on 06/15/2005 10:00:16 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Hildy

It was murder. Pure, simple murder.


60 posted on 06/15/2005 10:02:04 AM PDT by bvw
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