# Schiavo autopsy released **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390 "2005-06-15T15:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/221 "2005-06-17T22:54:02Z")
I understood that Ts’s dad was home also when she collapsed. ---
**Author:** ![widdleytinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a4c791/32.png) [@widdleytinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdleytinks)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/222 "2005-06-18T00:29:13Z")
I’m not entirely clear on the 70 minutes, but could it be that the 70 minutes were calculated from the time she collapsed (and in the interim received EMS care at home) to when she arrived at the hospital? One thing I’ve learned about following this case is how carefully the Schindler attorney’s word their statements. An example: Saying that the corroner ruled out bulimia when in actual fact (going on what I’ve read on this thread) the corroner’s report simply said there was no evidence of bulimia. As Doctor J pointed out in one of these new Schiavo threads, there wouldn’t BE any evidence of bulimia to be found unless the condition had gone on for many several years. regards, widdley ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/223 "2005-06-18T03:24:20Z")
The report didn’t really say there was no evidence of an eating disorder, just that an eating disorder couldn’t be absolutely confirmed. The lowered potassium actually _was_ evidence of bulemia but it can’t be called proof in and of itself. An eating disorder 15 years prior to death is not anything that would be _expected_ to be confirmed by an autopsy. The truth is that there is enough evidence external to the autopsy to confirm an eating disorder, that the lowered potassiun is _consistent_ with an eating disorder and that there is no evidence that Terri’s collapse was caused by anything _other_ than her eating disorder, certainly not any kind of violent trauma or physical abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/224 "2005-06-18T03:30:15Z")
> [@comrade33](#): > > umm i got distracted by [this](http://www.venganza.org/) and meant to type “as possible.” after the word courtroom. if you read it i think you’ll understand. That is 100% fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/225 "2005-06-18T04:25:29Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > That is 100% fantastic. I’m coverting. Noodly appendage… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/226 "2005-06-18T05:19:42Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > I’m coverting. > > Noodly appendage… 😛 Not if you’re going to TELL everybody, you aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/227 "2005-06-18T05:24:19Z")
By the way, that TOTALLY needs to be a Weird Earl. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/228 "2005-06-19T19:16:54Z")
What disturbs me most about the Schindlers ios how they let others glom on to them, e.g., Randolph Terry and Brother Paul O’Donnell,etc. :wally :wally ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390/229 "2005-06-19T19:58:06Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Just to play devil’s advocate here, you have to be careful about jumping to conclusions based on brain size alone. The CNN story doesn’t give much detail, and doctors are continually amazed at patients who suffer sever brain trauma and who do recover. There’s the famous case of the boy with just one half of his brain intact who functioned pretty normally. I’m not saying that TS would fall in that category necessarily (I doubt she would), but there simply isn’t enough detail in the CNN story to determine who was vindicated in this case. Imagine if a guillotine chopped of the bottom third of your body - you could survive. Now imagine that same blade chopping off the top third. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schiavo-autopsy-released/308390.md?page=11)