No one on Michael Schiavo's side has any certainty that I am aware of, and nor do I. That "certainty" criteria is a legal criteria, and the only people allowed by the courts to testify to the "certainty" criteria are medical doctors with a specialty in the area in question.

Now, if Mary Garvey, who claims to be a medical professional herself if I am not mistaken (and possibly educated at the same medical school where Senator Bill Frist received his medical degree in making diagnoses via videotape), can't understand why the courts sided with the doctors who testified as state witnesses, rather than doctors who testified for the plaintiffs or doctors who testified for the respondents, then I guess she isn't even interested in what the objective medical consensus in this case was.

Not only are the hysteria mongerers demanding we second guess Michael Schiavo, they are also demanding we second guess the medical opinions of many doctors who testified, and then second guess the legal system--all the way to the US Supreme Court FIVE TIMES.

And you know what? I think anyone who buys a ticket to climb on THAT train ought to be ignored completely.

This became a national obsession because the TV networks and talk radio made it one. They are the culprits who gave these nutcases, the Schiavos, the Randall Terrys, etc. the public bully pulpit. For absolutely free. At the expense of the news like the WMD report, etc etc