Terri Schiavo autopsy results

The political fight seems to be finished, all started by a woman who's health collapsed 15 years ago. It is still unknown what caused that, but here is what they do know.


-A coroner who performed an autopsy on Terri Schiavo reported Wednesday that she suffered from an irreversible brain injury and would not have recovered as her parents insisted was possible.

-It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused.

-"Her brain was profoundly atrophied," Jon Thogmartin, medical examiner for Florida's Pinellas-Pasco County, told a press conference.

-"There was massive neuronal loss, or death. This was irreversible and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."

-The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," he added


I really hope Terri Schiavo's parents truly felt they could have saved their daughter, because why else would you put a person through this. No one deserves this, not even Bill Frist, renowned heart surgeon who said, "She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."

Oh so you thought she was coherent enough, and able enough to see things did you Mr. Frist?

The medical examiner said Ms. Schiavo was blind.

*This just in* Mr. Frist (R-Liar) now says he never said Teri Schiavo seemed to respond to visual stimuli.