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April 01, 2009
Terri Schiavo Autopsy Report: Case Closed
The Washington Post reports today on the autopsy of Terri Schiavo. The autopsy apparently puts to rest many of the outlandish accusations made by Terri Schiavo supporters against her husband Michael Schiavo.
Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse...her brain was about half of normal size when she died...she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack ... there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death...
The autopsy also states that efforts to feed her apart from her feeding tube would have been pointless.
Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin said: "she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth..."
"Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death whether she was fed or hydrated by mouth or not..."
The medical examiner's report also pointedly refutes one of the worst of the claims made by Schiavo supporters against Michael Schiavo.
[The M.E.]concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse.
The autopsy also states quite clearly that further medical efforts on Ms. Schiavo's behalf would have proved fruitless.
"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."
Let us hope and trust that the manifest conclusions embodied in the autopsy report will finally put the matter to rest.
Case closed.
Posted by William at April 1, 2009 12:00 AM
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