From: John Cuccia 

That tape was the basis of Frist's "diagnosis" of her condition.


On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:14:05 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:

>Yes, it was, it was played night and day for months -- most of the time (at
>least on Fox) it was identified as old "file footage" -- but
I agree that
>the release of the tape was intended to "prove" her viability
and the press
>dutifully fulfilled that intent.
>
>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>news:42b0ce0f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> That may be Mark but that tape was played quite a bit this year and used
>> as visual justification for higher brain activity
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:42b0c600$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> From what I gather (my impression anyway) that tape was quite old; so
>>> there could have been substantial deterioration from then forward.
>>>
>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>>> news:42b0c4cf$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> plus
>>>>
>>>>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050616/ap_on_re_
us/schiavo_autopsy
>>>> The finding that she was blind counters a widely seen
videotape released
>>>> by her parents of Terri Schiavo in her hospice bed. The video showed
>>>> Schiavo appearing to turn toward her mother's voice and smile. She
>>>> moaned and laughed. Her head moved up and down and she
seemed to follow
>>>> the progress of a brightly colored Mickey Mouse balloon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:42b0b632$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> John Cuccia wrote:
>>>>>> She really was in a "persistent vegetative
state", her brain was half
>>>>>> its expected size,  and there is no evidence that
her husband tried to
>>>>>> kill her for the money.
>>>>>>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050615.wschiavo0615
1a/BNStory/International/
>>>>>
>>>>> But it was a damn good reason to strip away even more states
>>>>> rights.....ah doncha know that the right juuust lurve the big ol
>>>>> federal gov as the way of sorting all problems even
local ones....so
>>>>> long as they're in power in Washington...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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