I agree with that. Where I disagree with you is you are just as guilty as Hammersfahr in relating the facts. There is no evidence that she was bulemic and no evidence that low potassium contributed to her cardiac arrest. This is as reported by the ME who conducted the autopsy. In point of fact, the ME stated conclusively that the cause of her cardiac arrest is inconclusive. Nobody knows, not him, not you and not me.
Furthermore, an autopsy can neither confirm nor deny the existence of PVS and the ME should never have gone there because he damn well knows it. I can post scans of people with half of a brain who walk and talk as well as you or I. I can post case histories of people with minmal cortical tissue testing 115 on Stanford Binet.
Here's what we do know. The State of Florida ordered the death by dehydration of a citizen, guilty of no crime, without knowing with certainty either of the two issues above. Some support that and some don't. I don't.
Just keeping it real.
What you are missing is that Terri's discharge summary from the hospital detailed her potassium level.
She had cardiac arrest, severely low potassium (3.7 is low enough to make you 2x more likely to have cardiac arrest (which is not a heart attack) hers was a 2.0,
- she was malnourished and low in calcium
- Classic profile of a bulimic, especially added to the fact that she faught a life-long weight problem, going from ~250 lbs at age 18 to 110-120 in '90, and was seeing and infertility doc, and missing her periods. (the major malpractice suit of the 2 was for his not noticing the signs - he hadn't taken a blood chemisty)
Also note that bulimics lose up to 30% of their bone mass in a single year.
http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/Humana%20Discharge%20Summary%20050990.pdf
Great post. Thanks.