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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:34
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nat...artner=homepage
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Schiavo's Brain Was Severely Deteriorated, Autopsy Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 15, 2005
Filed at 11:29 a.m. ET
LARGO, Fla. (AP) -- Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results released Wednesday of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman.
Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse. He also said she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack and there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death.
Autopsy results on the 41-year-old brain damaged woman were made public Wednesday, more than two months after Schiavo's death ended an internationally watched right-to-die battle that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House and divided the country.
She died from dehydration, he said.
He said she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth as her parents' requested.
''Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death whether she was fed or hydrated by mouth or not,'' Thogmartin told reporters.
Thogmartin said that Schiavo's brain was about half of its expected size when she died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed.
''The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain. ... This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons.'' |
Will this end the debate?
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shawnmmcc
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No, no - if the family had prayed and put their entire trust in God here could have been a MIRACLE and she could have recovered functionality. (note - I actually heard that argument in a I believe 60 minutes interview with parents whose 2 year old child had severe microcephaly - essentially less brain than Schiavo had - and had cost taxpayers I believe it was 2 million dollars, seeing as they were on medicaid. That's why Governor Bush signed a law letting the state force people like Schiavo to be unplugged if the state is paying for it).
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:34
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Uh, is that the same reason why Gov. Bush originally signed Terri's law saying her life should be preserved, especially because she is in the care of the state?
What you are saying here, is that if people cost the state too much money they should be killed.
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If they're not concious, not curable, not treatable, and have no functions which indicate any level of awareness or higher (non-autonomic) brain function, then no, the state shouldn't be obligated to spend money to artificially preserve some limited body functions.
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In Terri's case, that wasn't the issue because her parents loved her and wanted to take care of her, but her husband would not let them do so. |
Her parents had an obsessive inability to let go, coupled with a disregard for whether she had any prospects of even the slightest improvement, or whether she could experience more than an automatic pain reflex.
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15-06-2005 20:45
Not only was she irrecoverable, but the family was lying about Mrs. Schiavo's responses.
Those brain damaged idiots always come up with the the most nonintelligable drivil.
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