Re: Great True Crime Book - Panzram


"tiny dancer" <tinydancer357@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Not until the autopsy.

Well, the Schiavo autopsy showed no brain there.

> Okay, how about this. Do you ever watch any of
> those programs on Discovery Health or TLC? The ones in the ER's? I've
> watched some of those, and at the end of the program they will
occasionally
> give you an update as to some of the people where you didn't find out what
> happened to 'em, how they were. Lots of times I didn't even watch that,
> until one night there was this guy, family all around, and the doctor told
> them "he's brain dead, I'm afraid we've done all we can for him".

I suspect you've remembering this wrong. They probably said he was in a
coma. Big difference.

> His
> mother was there, at least that's who I think it was now. And she said
> 'they couldn't turn off the machines, that she was praying for him and she
> just knew he'd get better and all." Well, of course I felt sorry for
her,
> it was all so sad, and then as the credits were rolling around the
'update'
> came. Turns out they kept the guy on the machines, and sure 'nuff, in the
> update it said 'he woke up some weeks later and eventually went home.'
> Surprised the *** out of me.
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But what if they've been in that coma for several years?

> Doctors and medicine is seldom a sure thing. Sometimes you win and
> sometimes you lose, but they don't know everything in every situaion. I
> still think that slope is a lot more slippery on the medical side of the
> mountain.
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So you think there was some hope for Terry Schiavo? Seriously? She was
*gone*. Had been for many years. There was no doubt among doctors who
examined her.

Some things are judgement calls. But some, are not.






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