Comments on: More on Schiavo http://www.saysuncle.com/2005/03/22/more_on_schiavo/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:09:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tgirsch http://www.saysuncle.com/2005/03/22/more_on_schiavo/comment-page-1/#comment-14605 tgirsch Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:55:35 +0000 /?p=5146#comment-14605 The allegations of abuse are specious. In all the times this has gone to court, you would expect that if there were any substance to those allegations, they would be brought up there. To my knowledge, they never have been. If these folks had any legitimate dirt on Michael Schiavo, believe me, it would be plastered everywhere. Instead, we get the infamous whisper campaign. As for her not being in a coma, I'm not sure why that matters. What she's "in" is a <a href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm" target="newwindow">persistent vegetative state</a>, which is one step closer to death than a coma. In fact, a good portion of her brain has <i>atrophied away</i>. It's never going to come back. To date, the best information I've found on the Schiavo case <a href="http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html" target="newwindow">is here</a>, from a Florida law blogger who's been following the case since before it was "cool." I found it to be pretty even-handed and free of incendiary rhetoric. The Q&A section is particularly interesting. The allegations of abuse are specious. In all the times this has gone to court, you would expect that if there were any substance to those allegations, they would be brought up there. To my knowledge, they never have been. If these folks had any legitimate dirt on Michael Schiavo, believe me, it would be plastered everywhere. Instead, we get the infamous whisper campaign.

As for her not being in a coma, I’m not sure why that matters. What she’s “in” is a persistent vegetative state, which is one step closer to death than a coma.

In fact, a good portion of her brain has atrophied away. It’s never going to come back.

To date, the best information I’ve found on the Schiavo case is here, from a Florida law blogger who’s been following the case since before it was “cool.” I found it to be pretty even-handed and free of incendiary rhetoric. The Q&A section is particularly interesting.

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