Schiavo’s autopsy showed severe brain degeneration, with the brain shrunken and weighing half what it should have. Michael Schiavo’s motives may or may not have been benevolent but she wasn’t going to get better.
A lot of that is disputed and some of it is certainly the result of over a decade of neglect followed by thirteen days of starvation and dehydration.
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