--- In [email protected], "easyone200" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a surprise, all those wacky right to lifer' were wrong. > The autopsy of Terri Schiavo found no evidence that the severely brain-damaged woman > was strangled or abused and that no amount of therapy would have reversed her > condition, a medical examiner said Wednesday. > > She also was not abused by her husband, another favored ploy of the wack-pack fundies. > The medical examiner said his examination turned up "no sign of abuse or trauma" -- > allegations leveled by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, against her > husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo. > > The editing of 50 hours or so of video tape to get the phony "responses" of Teri to > commands and her tracking eye movements are now seen as what they truly were, the lies > and political side show of the christian right wing nuts. She had less than half a brain and > no functioning visual cortex. > > A report from a neuropathologist who served as a consultant to the autopsy said Schiavo's > brain was "grossly abnormal and weighed only 615 grams [1.35 pounds]." Her brain was > profoundly atrophied," he said.The vision center of her brain was dead, he said. > "This damage was irreversible," said Dr. Thogmartin. "No amount of therapy or treatment > would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons." > > I can however, understand why these fundies want to keep the Terri's of the world alive. If > C.A.T. scans were taken of fundie church members brains they would look a little too > much like.............
I wonder how much of that brain weight loss was due to 19 days (or 11, whatever it was) without water. I guess that the brain would be the last to give up water but I don't know. Has it ever been studied? JohnY To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
