Terry Schiavo Autopsy Results

[Pangloss]

The verdict: No evidence of spousal abuse. No sign of trauma. No sign that her collapse was the result of a beating by her husband at all.

 

The report also says that she would not have ever recovered from her injury, as her parents had hoped. The report confirms that her brain was "profoundly atrophied", suffering from "massive neuronal loss" that was "irreversible". The brain weighed in at half its normal size.

 

The report showed no evidence that the husband attempted to hasten her death with the use of drugs or other substances, as the parents had alleged.

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-fschiavo15jun15,0,3263358.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8225637/

 

This appears to finally put the issue to rest. Husband right, family wrong. End of story.

[Pangloss]

One sad twist to the story is that the autopsy revealed that Schiavo was blind. This gives lie to the family's claims that she was responding to visual cues, such as balloons and whatnot, which the family claimed was happening right up to and including the time after he feeding tube was removed for the last time.

[ecoli]

I had a feeling that would happen. The husband got accused of all this bad, illegal stuff , without any evidence to back it up. Just because he would have benefited from foul play doesn't mean he commited foul play. Our society immediately jumps to the worst conclusions.

[In My Memory]

I feel so relieved for Mr. Schiavo.