I haven't read the autopsy but I was reading daily kos and they were saying that the autopsy showed Terri was blind. I'm not sure how that's going to play out among people who were pro life. I've seen her brain size being dismissed as a result of the dehydration and claiming it only happened in the last week or so of her life.

Well some people were claiming that Terri was looking at them, that she recognized people or somesuch....

I guess Jesus must have been her eyes.

She was blind because the part of her brain that controls vision was destroyed.

They also said that spoon feeding her food or liquid wouldn't have saved her because she couldn't eat or drink.

Autopsy: Schiavo Blind, Brain Damaged June 15 (AP) — An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused.

Not that this is a surprise.

No, it's not a surprise. I don't think the people who were opposed to her nutrition and hydration being removed were claiming she didn't have either massive or irreversible brain damage though (well, at least not the non-nutters). In fact, one of the contentions was that, sometimes, when there is a Mis-diagnosis of PVS, when the patient is blind.

through very scientific study (of being in a small office with A/C moreorless pointed right at me), I have discovered that 76-77 is the perfect temp for me.

the end.

I don't think the people who were opposed to her nutrition and hydration being removed were claiming she didn't have either massive or irreversible brain damage though

You weren't. Her parents were. They were claiming that she was looking at and talking to them. And those claims were the driving force behind the entire fiasco.

And those claims were the driving force behind the entire fiasco.

I think the driving force was the religious right, as they spent more than a million dollars (IIRC) on court costs for the parents.

I kinda wanna see her parents interviewed, to see how they respond to the autopsy results.

"How do you respond to the fact that this proves you were full of shit?"

I kinda wanna see her parents interviewed, to see how they respond to the autopsy results.

"How do you respond to the fact that this proves you were full of shit?"

Actually, I don't want to see that, because it's a really shitty thing to say to someone whose child is dead.

Actually, I don't want to see that, because it's a really shitty thing to say to someone whose child is dead.

Well OK, you have a point.

Except that the parents have been complete obnoxous assholes to the husband, so I have less sympathy to them than I might otherwise have.