Terri Schiavo Autopsy Results

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I will quote the article in its entirety because it is nice and short:

LARGO, Fla. -- 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."

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It could have been added here.

Yep it could have. I thought I remembered that other thread being about something else. A mod will surely close this errant thread out for me.

It could have been added there -- but most people won't read that thread to see the results of the publication so I think it deserved a new thread. 'course I'm not a mod so it doesn't make any difference what I think Just putting in my 2 cents.

I was just checking the news to see if the results had been put out yet and when I came back here yours was the first post I saw. thanks

Originally posted by justme1640
It could have been added there -- but most people won't read that thread to see the results of the publication so I think it deserved a new thread. 'course I'm not a mod so it doesn't make any difference what I think

Just putting in my 2 cents.

I was just checking the news to see if the results had been put out yet and when I came back here yours was the first post I saw. thanks

The problem is, that is what the tread IS about.

[edit on 15-6-2005 by SpittinCobra]