[CondorFlight]

". . . 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."

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.
(sarc/)

[citizen]

50% of her brain was gone. Poor woman.

[bukkdems]

Too bad for the money grubbers. I hope Randal Terry et al will shut up now.

[RedRover]

...the "vision centers of her brain were dead."

Does this seem consistent with the video of Terri following objects with her eyes? I'm not doctor but I gotta wonder.

[G.Mason]

Please feel free to determine Terri's cause of death yourself in the space listed below. It will be duly noted and affixed to her death certificate.

Assumptions, allegations, spin the bottle theories, pin the tail on the corrupt judges, lawyers, Michael Schiavo and errant Freepers are all valid.

...

Please feel free to determine Terri's cause of death yourself in the space listed below. It will be duly noted and affixed to her death certificate.

Assumptions, allegations, spin the bottle theories, pin the tail on the corrupt judges, lawyers, Michael Schiavo and errant Freepers are all valid.

...

[prion]

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,

If I'm not mistaken, the ME said "persistent vegetative state" could only be diagnosed in a living patient. Massive brain damage we knew.

[Hank Rearden]

The Terripalooza industry will be spinning like a top trying to obfuscate this one.

[sgtbono2002]

A a lot of people owe Michael Schiavvo an apology: Of course it wont be forthcoming. Funny they said she followed people with her eyes when the doctors say she was blind.

Poor thing lying blind and not knowing anything happeneing around her and so many wanted more years of this for her.

She is in a better place now.

[SkyPilot]

"Michael Schiavo told Police he awoke at 5:40am that morning and heard a loud thump."

[DustyMoment]

"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.

[k2blader]

I see the pro-death types are having a field day with this, as expected.

[Finger Monkey]

Eergh.

Here they come again . . .

[Aquinasfan]

She didn't deserve to live.

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[ArGee]

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.

Anyone notice whose name was NOT mentioned after the "between" above?

It wasn't a right-to-die battle, it was a right-to-kill battle. Absent a written statement by Terry that she would have wanted to die we were dealing with her husband's wish that she die. For some reason it was terribly important to Michael that she die. It was his issue, not hers, that she die.

Shalom.

[NormB]

"The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain,"

I like this one, Terrys brain was only half that of a human brain. So she wasn't human now, or at least her brain wasn't.

[veronica]

Autopsy Findings Ultimately Irrelevant; Schiavo's Death Morally Unacceptable

6/15/2005 2:35:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Amber Dolle of American Life League, 540-903-9572, adolle@all.org

WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "The results of Terri Schiavo's autopsy provide some answers concerning her physical condition," said American Life League President Judie Brown, "but in no way do these findings justify the cruel death by dehydration that was imposed on a living human being."

The medical examiner reported that Terri Schiavo had suffered extensive, irreversible brain damage and would not have been able to recover from the injury that left her disabled. However, the report did not indicate that Terri's injuries would have killed her. "The fact remains," said Brown, "that Terri was not dying, did not have a terminal condition, and could have continued to survive with proper nutrition and hydration."

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that "whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable."

"There are those who will use this autopsy report to claim that the death by dehydration imposed on Terri Schiavo was compassionate or merciful," said Brown. "Others would say such a life is not worth living. Such thinking is misguided and absolutely wrong. Those decisions are not ours to make."

Brown urges anyone concerned with Terri's plight to ensure that they have a morally acceptable healthcare directive in place, such as American Life League's Loving Will ( http://www.all.org/lovingwill/ ), so the tragedy Terri's family experienced is not repeated. "The bottom line is, Terri died an excruciatingly cruel death which simply cannot be justified."

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

The Medical Examiner convinced me that I got this one wrong.

Live and learn.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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[RightWinger]

...and was blind

That discounts the whole thing!
Anybody who saw the video of her following the balloon with her eyes knows she wasn't totally blind.

[Old Professer]

This should be engraved wherever injustice is practiced:

She died from dehydration