[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.

[Sarah]

any signs of violence would have healed in the decade and a half that transpired since her initial coma.