Schiavo Autopsy Shows No Sign of Abuse

What was their marriage like, keltic?

Don't Hold Your Breath For This Sorry Excuse
DANIEL RUTH
Published: Jun 17, 2005

By any standard of common decency, Michael Schiavo is owed the mother of all apologies by the likes of radio goober Glenn Beck, the Morton Downey Jr.-lite of the airwaves.
Common decency? Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the rest of their sweat lodge of slander engaging in common decency? Hahahahaha!!!

Wouldn't expecting these goons with microphones to admit to their complicity in the character assassination of Michael Schiavo be like anticipating Saddam Hussein to willfully confess to genocide?

After all, it was Beck and his fellow travelers of faux hysteria who spent the past couple of years accusing the husband of Terri Schiavo of domestic abuse and attempted murder for simply wanting to honor his brain-damaged wife's wishes not to be kept alive in her tragic state.

Now at long last, Michael Schiavo has been vindicated by the truth, a foreign concept to all those phony so-called Christians, talk show thugs and politicians looking for a cheap sound bite who were more than ready to treat a brain-dead woman as their own personal ``Weekend At Bernie's'' of the Bible.

Contrary to the lies perpetrated by the likes of Joe Pyne wannabe, Glenn Beck, who tried to propagate the notion that Terri Schiavo had the neurological equivalent of the sniffles, Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin confirmed what Michael Schiavo and medical experts had always maintained - Terri Schiavo was indeed in a persistent vegetative state.

Wait! Was that the sound of an apology from Glenn Beck, the Joseph Goebbels of the chattering class?

Naw, that would require a conscience.

In addition, the autopsy confirmed Terri Schiavo was blind and because of a brain that had been replaced mostly by fluid, and she was in worse neurological shape than Karen Ann Quinlan, according to Polk Medical Examiner Stephen Nelson.


Or put another way, Terri Schiavo had ``no cognitive capability,'' Nelson noted, once again supporting Michael Schiavo and the numerous real doctors who had examined the woman over the past 15 years.

Refuting the voodoo advanced by the likes of Beck, the Sasquatch of the AM dial, Thogmartin concurred with repeated findings by the Florida Department of Children & Families that there was no evidence - NONE - that Terri Schiavo was physically abused in any way by her husband.

The autopsy report, again exposing the likes of Beck, the jackbooted storm trooper of the Arbitron ratings, and his acolytes of disinformation for the demagogues that they are, supported Michael Schiavo and his wife's medical team that there was no hope - NONE - Terri ever could have recovered from the massive loss of brain function she experienced 15 years ago.

It is more than understandable Terri Schiavo's parents Bob and Mary Schindler and her siblings were in a parallel universe of denial over the true state of their daughter's dire medical condition. They loved her.

And in such a circumstance, we can all understand how emotion and hope can sometimes trump reality.

But in the service of ratings points, audience share, ambition, ego and hubris, the likes of Glenn Beck, the Madame Defarge of Talk Radio, and his Posse Comitatus of prevarication were more than willing to engage in drive time vigilantism against Michael Schiavo, whose only crime was trying to honor his wife's end-of-life wishes.

Wait! Was that an apology by the likes of Glenn Beck, the Albert Speer of the Sackcloth and Ashes set, that he was wrong about - EVERYTHING?

Naw. That would require a soul.

That would require a some class.

That would require manhood.


Columnist Daniel Ruth can be reached at (813) 259-7599.

I am getting a litle sick and tired of all these people who say there was NO indication that Teri would not want to live like a vegetable.

Isn't that marriage is all about? Intimacy? The other person is the one to whom you tell things that you DON'T tell anyone else?
I happen to think the say-so of her husband is a VERY good indication that Teri would not want to live in a PVS.

That is why next-of-kin makes the call in these matters.

But because the Next-of-kin decided in a way the pro-lifers do not like, they demonize him, call him a murderer, and say that we cannot take her next-of-kin's word for it, the decision should be made by "the family".

Here's a news flash-Michael IS her family, more so than her parents or siblings. That happened when she walked down the aisle and said "I do".

There is no reason NOT to believe Michael when he says that Terri would not want to live in a PVS. It is, after all, the kind of thing people talk about with their spouse, not the sort of thing that comes out in conversation with the parents, aunts and uncles over turkey at Thanksgiving dinner.

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Complete information about the infinite possibilities and/or intricate workings of the brain are not yet available. Therefore, that information was NOT available to the doctors in the Schiavo case.

There are some things that continue to be unknown. Why don't you admit it?

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parados--

Complete information about the infinite possibilities and/or intricate workings of the brain are not yet available. Therefore, that information was NOT available to the doctors in the Schiavo case.

There are some things that continue to be unknown. Why don't you admit it?

We do know that certain types of brain damage have NEVER resulted in a recovery.

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I haven't set recovery as the standard Schiavo would have to meet to be allowed to live. Is that your standard?

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Terri Schaivo was one of those types. We also know the functions of many areas of the brain. We know that those areas were GONE in Terri's brain.

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But we don't know what was going on behind her eyes. We DON'T know if she was suffering in the absence of food and water. PVS patients do react to painful stimulus.

The idea that we can't know anything for certain is hardly a reason to ignore that it is 99.99% sure to be true.

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When you're going to cause someone to die, it is a good reason to demand 100% information about what you plan to do and why you are planning to do it.

We don't know everything there is to know about life so WHY can we possible bury people that we think are dead.... The facts are ZERO times has anyone with Terri's brain damage ever come back.

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I didn't think she'd "come back". I just thought it was wrong to starve her.

Do you know anything about probability Lash? Maybe you need to take a class in it.

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Do you know anything about compassion or respect for someone's life, who can't speak for herself? Take a class in that

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