She’s gone - you need to let it go.

I’ve always been of the opinion that Terri Schiavo’s case, while sad, was pretty definite as far as diagnosis goes. She had irreversable brain damage and the little videos with her following the camera and grunting in what appeared to be a response to a question was just propaganda put out by distraught parents who couldn’t fathom that they person in front of them was no longer their daughter.

The autopsy report that came out yesterday or the day before concluded as much. Terri’s brain was 1/2 the size of a normal brain, she was blind and her situation was irreversible.

It’s sad that her parents can’t fathom this. To this day they are still saying she could have gotten better with therapy. Even though the autopsy results specifically state that wasn’t going to happen - there’s no way. Now the parents want to talk to other medical professionals about the fact that they feel the autopsy is wrong and they are considering filing an unspecified lawsuit.

LET IT GO PEOPLE. It’s a very sad situation, but she’s gone. She’s really been gone since the early 90s. No amount of therapy or treatment would have brought her back. She was blind so she didn’t follow the camera with her eyes. What reason would a medical examiner have to lie? It took him 2 months to do the autopsy so I’m sure it’s pretty thorough.

I think Dr. Karen Weidenheim said it best:

“People should understand that sometimes, for known or unknown reasons, individuals sustain massive brain injury that for which healing is not possible,” said Dr. Karen Weidenheim, the chief of neuropathology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. “Everything that could have been done was done for this lady for 15 years, and this case is very tragic.”