Posted on 06/15/2005 12:27:19 PM PDT by veronica
That was "80% of her upper brain," but the mass listed is for her whole brain.
She wasn't brain dead. She was in a Persistent Vegetative State. Her lower brain functions were partially intact, allowing her body to continue operating without a ventilator, etc., but her cognition was gone.
Marvin, I will go back through these:
-Useless Eaters vs The Death Cult--
...and cull what I find- may be later in the day; got to shoo Miss Emily out the door & run errands- but I'll get to it directly.
Questions for you, and for others to ponder...
Do you think a person's right to refuse hydration/nutrition should be denied?
Do you think a less barbaric means of deliverance should be available for those who don't wish to remain in a PVS?
Do you think parents should have precedence over their adult children's spouses?
Do you think the armed forces of the State should be called in to overturn, by force, our court system decisions?
Do you believe individuals have no right to decide whether or not to continue their lives, for whatever condition they are in?
Do you value life over rights? "People" over individuals?
Do you realize that while you call others coldblooded, there are some who look at you that way...feeling that you have no compassion for those who would not want their body to be kept going?
And this diagnosis was made based on what evidence? Was it all based on what she could or could not do with her eyes? Hmmm. Wasn't she blind? I wonder how these doctors could mange to diagnose her brain potential without even factoring in the fact that she was blind. You have to wonder about their abilities to diagnose PVS if they did not diagnose such a basic thing as blindness, and did not even take it into consideration when looking at her.
Were not all the indications of he PVS diagnosis based on her ability to react visually? You have to wonder how these Dr.s could make such claims when they did not even know she was blind.
The word is trust. If you trust that everyone involved in this case had all honorable intentions then I could see your points. I on the other hand did not trust Michael Schiavo from the very beginning. I thing Judge Greer made some very huge mistakes in the beginning and had too much of an ego to retract his original findings - and so did all that he could from that point on to cover his ass. Not much of a stretch in the realm of possibilities and certainly not a vast conspiracy. All the other characters acted as their agendas dictated.
"Were not all the indications of he PVS diagnosis based on her ability to react visually?"
No.
"I thing Judge Greer made some very huge mistakes in the beginning and had too much of an ego to retract his original findings"
... and then the appeals courts and other judges including the Fed. Appeals Court and the US Supreme Court worked further to cover Greer's butt/mistakes. Roflmao
Who was it who criticized me for asking if he was a 'retread'?
Might have something to do with the fact that it was the middle of the night, huh?
Of course, you have no evidence for this whatsoever.
Do something constructive and bake some cookiers.
It isn't? Feeding tubes don't just naturally appear, you know.
feel that the death sentence
Hyperbolic rhetoric.
comletely based on nothing more than hearsay
That's pretty funny, coming from your side.
without the ORDERED (and nose-thumbed,) de novo hearing
Did you read the court rulings pertaining to this? In the Terri Law, congress did NOT change the existing rules regarding temporary injunctive relief. They had the opportunity to do so, and they chose not to. Consequently, the court ruled based upon existing statute and precedent. And this ruling was upheld by the full 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court.
There was NOTHING in writing stating her "wishes."
Like it or not, that isn't required in Florida.
At one point, they had her home for three weeks. They sent her back to the care facility because they couldn't take care of her.
unless you're going to say that the priests and others who visited her all the way to the end were lying about what they saw.
Perhaps "extreme wishful thinking" is kinder than "lying". The 'testimony' of Fr. Pavone, in particular, is absurd.
The tests were not allowed
Untrue. She had intense therapy, and repeated testing. Her condition was determined to be unrecoverable.
Dr. Thugmartin
A pathetic attempt to demonize yet another person who disagreed with your alternate reality version of events.
I don't buy it.
Of course you don't. You have bought every bit of rumor and speculation hook, line and sinker. All contradictory data, therefore, must be due to human evil and a vast conspiracy.
Is your forehead bleeding yet?
Great post...
"Culture of DisrespectTM "
Couldn't have said that better myself.
Bones
Unlike Michael, the Schindlers needed that trust fund money. They had filed for bankruptcy a year before Terri's collapse, following a bad investment in a Florida business venture.
Initially, everything was fine between the Schindlers and Michael:
"They moved in together after Terri's collapse in February 1990, and Michael called the Schindlers ''Mom and Dad.'' A year later, the Schindlers encouraged their son-in-law to get on with his life and date. They even met some of the women he saw."
"I looked at that as maybe he was starting to take a step in the right direction and get his life back together,'' Bob Schindler said in a 1993 deposition. ``He's still a young man. He still has a life ahead of him.''
Then in 1993 when Michael refused to give the Schindlers half of his $300,000 loss of consotium award that they demanded, they had a "falling out".
No, the cause of death was dehydration.
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