[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Here's another opinion.  This guy says that, while her brain may indeed have been an irreversibly damaged pulp, the areas governing awareness and consciousness were still intact.

Um... Dr. William Hammesfahr seems to be quite a dubious individual; he was interviewed by the judge in 2002 giving testimony over this case and his testimony ruled to be anecdotal rather than factual.

This is the same one who claimed a 1999 Nobel Prize nomination; not only is that against Nobel regulations (there's a 50 year wait before nominees can be named), it was a nomination from his congressman (which isn't a valid person to nominate someone; technically, I could become a Nobel prize nominee if I got my MP to write in, and it would be pretty much the same value).  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hammesfahr / http://amr2you.blogspot.com/2005/03/florida-neurologist-that-claims-that.html)

He was also fined by the Florida board of health (although a more severe 2003 judgement on the same case was succesfully appealed against) for overcharging a patient. (http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/155906.htm)

So...having seen his website (http://www.hni-online.com/), and heard (quotations/articles) of him before, I'd suggest he has a certain self-interest anyways with regard to his own claims.  I'd be a lot more inclined to trust an independent 3rd party for this sort of judgement, because of that.

EDIT; claims of bias against WorldNetDaily itself; http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/schiavo.html

[Ulala]

Originally posted by Bobboau
her brain wasa lifeless pulp.

"oh no no no! she had to be alive, we have to be right all the time and the librals are always evil evil evil. I must have faith that she was totaly ok and gona get better but it was just her evil husband who tried to kill her and insidiously hid all evedence so he... could get.. monies.. for ... evil libral!!!IMrightImRIGHT iMRIGHTALLTHETIME must have, must have faith in the republican pazrty who put everything on the line to manipulate the population on a poloriseing isssue, defineing the lines to split people into an I'm always right position so they can push there agenda without anyone noticeing because there too busy fighting over stupid irrelevent crap"

That was only a little generalizing, Bob. I'm pro-life, happy go lucky, republican Christian all the way, but I still think keeping her alive was a waste just as much as the majority of people did. The doctors who had gone to school far longer than I have said she wouldn't recover.. she was basically lifeless. At that point, I considered her dead, regardless of what her parents said.