I find the listing of the cause of death totally unacceptable. They are supposed to list the immediate, direct cause of death, which is dehydration -- the ME did NOT put that down as the official cause. It doesn't matter what he says, what matters, is what's in the autopsy report.
Suppose someone shoots a person, who had Parkinson's disease, or whatever, and the person dies. Are they going to list the cause of death as "complications of Parkinson's disease"?
Also, they mention that Terri's brain weighted 625 g, about half of that of a normal brain. Well, helloooo, this is after she was being dehydrated for two weeks. The brain is 80% water, so naturally during the extended process of dehydration, it would lose water and weight. So the weight of her brain doesn't mean much.
PING for the actual 39 page autopsy report.
I don't know if it was posted inside of the various articles, but I figured people would have trouble finding it.
You may want to ping the Terri ping list.
Cause of Death: Slow Murder by Starvation, sanctioned by multiple courts.
Actual report ping.
Cause of death was dehydration.
Could being severly dehydrated cause the brain to shrink due to the fact that the brain contains water as one of the components?
Even from my totally uneducated perspective, I believe this report represents a flat denial of that claim.
I thought that the main dispute was did she deserve to live or die. I thought her family wanted to take care of her knowing of the brain damage but the husband, et al. said no, she should die it's "what she wanted." I thought that there were many disputes. Not all have been settled says the report.
I guess it's called MSM spinning and spiking. It's what they do. ABC was one of the phony polls that served as a news item for days, "99.9999999999999999 percent of Americans want her 'released'!"
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Considering the numerous occasions in which Terri underwent forced dehydration--the first time, then in Oct 2003, and again months ago, ultimately causing her death--isn't it likely that such trauma to the body had some effect on her already fragile condition, specifically to the brain?
How many medical examiners know what a brain looks like after numerous occasions of severe dehydration in a person, particularly when the patient had already lessened brain function?
What is the typical brain weight of person who died from dehydration?
Did the medical examiner take these sorts of questions into account?
Well, helloooo, this is after she was being dehydrated for two weeks. The brain is 80% water, so naturally during the extended process of dehydration, it would lose water and weight. So the weight of her brain doesn't mean much.
Boy, you aren't the brightest bulb in the pack, are you.
"They are supposed to list the immediate, direct cause of death, which is dehydration -- the ME did NOT put that down as the official cause."
Good point. A sham right there.
It is interesting isn't it how certain people use the size of Terri's brain (per these "autopsy results") to rationalize that it was right to dehydrate and starve her to death. Makes one wonder what they think should be done with others who are similarly disabled.
"I find the listing of the cause of death totally unacceptable."
"Pg 28 7. By what mechanism did Theresa Schiavo die?
Postmortum findings...show that she died of marked dehydration."
You have a problem with that finding?
What is important here is how large Terri's brain was with respect to its original size. Not all brains or heads start out the same size.
There will be a harvest to be reckoned with come a day when we "Baby Boomers" become "inconvenient" to our children.
Think of Chelsea pulling the plug on Hillary so that she can get her hands on the money. My, won't Hillary be surprised that her pup turned on her.
I want to make sure you got pinged to this.
Clearly there is a relationship.
We had to look at George Felos' grotesquely evil face again yesterday and listen to that disgustingly evil voice. They (CNN) asked him if Michael Schiavo was owed an apology and you should have seen the smirk! If you want to know what satan himself looks like and sounds like, he's a dead ringer for George Felos.
"Terri Schiavo is a trial run for the future imploding of Social Security and Medicare. The coming rationing of services was the reason I went to court in 1992 against the prohibition of the private contract. Though it is difficult financially for many to bow out of the system, it may be necessary to do so in the near future to maintain our honor and our values. The shades of the Hegelian Rational Utility are upon us, just as I predicted in my speeches years ago. The rush to judgment despite so many ambiguities was fueled by euthanasia advocates' thirst for a precedent."
the new face of medicaid
"Seniors and the disabled are pushing the program to the breaking point"
So the weight of her brain doesn't mean much.