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rickholio · 03-24-2005, 12:06 AM

If I may dare to inject a note of sanity into this 'discussion'...

Here are CAT scans of 2 skulls. One containing a healthy brain, the other belonging to this poor woman.

Source for Schiavo CT scan
Source for healthy brain scan

You might notice the dark, undetailed area in the center of her cranium. That area is no longer brain matter, it's a sack of cerebral-spinal fluid. In essence, a significant portion of her brain has turned to liquid, specifically the higher-order portions that make a person a person. Some arguments have been advanced that an MRI would yield more detail of the interior of the skull, but it's fairly evident that even with the comparatively rudimentary images produced here that the inside her cranium has been hollowed out due to the complications of her oxygen deprevation.

It's a sad sad thing what's happened to her. It's an even sadder thing that her family is caught in a struggle of grief, love, loss and acceptance. It's a disgusting, vile, hateful thing that petty fucks use her situation to promote their own cause celebre... if there is such a thing as hell, then truly these maggots have their own special place set aside there.

Be that as it may, unless science or some sort of divine intervention manages to convert that fluid into some 600-odd grams of neural matter is not now, and likely will not ever, be rejoining the world of conscious thought. I'd further suggest that in the unlikely event the brain matter DID regenerate, she'd be a completely different person from before the accident... given that all her higher order functions would not only have to be regrown physically, but retrained essentially 'from birth'. The chances of the newly grown brain having the same neural pathways as the original would be even more vanishingly small than the already near-impossibility of regrowth.

03-24-2005, 12:06 AM
rickholio Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Nor'easterland Posts: 1,914	If I may dare to inject a note of sanity into this 'discussion'... Here are CAT scans of 2 skulls. One containing a healthy brain, the other belonging to this poor woman. Source for Schiavo CT scan Source for healthy brain scan You might notice the dark, undetailed area in the center of her cranium. That area is no longer brain matter, it's a sack of cerebral-spinal fluid. In essence, a significant portion of her brain has turned to liquid, specifically the higher-order portions that make a person a person. Some arguments have been advanced that an MRI would yield more detail of the interior of the skull, but it's fairly evident that even with the comparatively rudimentary images produced here that the inside her cranium has been hollowed out due to the complications of her oxygen deprevation. It's a sad sad thing what's happened to her. It's an even sadder thing that her family is caught in a struggle of grief, love, loss and acceptance. It's a disgusting, vile, hateful thing that petty fucks use her situation to promote their own cause celebre... if there is such a thing as hell, then truly these maggots have their own special place set aside there. Be that as it may, unless science or some sort of divine intervention manages to convert that fluid into some 600-odd grams of neural matter is not now, and likely will not ever, be rejoining the world of conscious thought. I'd further suggest that in the unlikely event the brain matter DID regenerate, she'd be a completely different person from before the accident... given that all her higher order functions would not only have to be regrown physically, but retrained essentially 'from birth'. The chances of the newly grown brain having the same neural pathways as the original would be even more vanishingly small than the already near-impossibility of regrowth.