"Minneapolis neurologist Ronald Cranford, a family friend and regular expert witness in favor of removing food and fluids in cases like Nancy's, said Joe had been chronically depressed for some time. According to Cranford, Joe was "an ordinary man with extraordinary abilities." "But he ran out of energy after [Nancy] died," Cranford said. Commenting on Joe's death by hanging, Cranford added that, in his opinion, Joe's was "a rational suicide" since "he was never going to get better." [American Medical News, 9/2/96:8]
Whaddya bet that serpent Cranford helped his friends, the Cruzans, reach and stick to their decision to kill their own daughter?
People have a habit of dying unnatural deaths around Cranford. He always labels the deaths natural and rational.
So regular and predictable that Felos imported him all the way from Minnesota to vote to kill Terri. Cranford wasn't called as an expert, he was called as "Dr. Humane Death" -- a guaranteed vote for death. Such was "due process" by the Greer Court -- those who wanted to kill Terri got three votes, those who wanted to keep her alive got two. Voila! She dies! The media then duly reported that "the court determined that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state."
The court rigged the vote, is all. It ignored some 33 other affidavits and petitions from neurologists and professionals who questioned the PVS diagnosis.