THE SCHIAVO AUTOPSY IS IN:

Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who sparked a national debate as her parents and husband fought over keeping her alive, was destined to remain in a vegetative state and wouldn’t have benefited from therapy, an autopsy found.

Schiavo, who was 41 when doctors removed feeding tubes that kept her alive, had a severely atrophied brain that weighed about half of what a normal brain does, Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin said during a press conference in Largo, Florida. She was completely blind, he said.

“No amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons,” Thogmartin said during the televised conference. “Her vision centers of her brain were dead.”

Which seems to undercut the claim that she recognized visitors.

UPDATE: Neal Boortz offers a brisk I-told-you-so that should be must reading, at least for those of you who sent me hatemail or made nasty phone calls. Shame on you for being such . . . tools.