The New York Review of Books: The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange: "As the pathologists who performed the autopsy stated clearly, the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state is clinical, i.e., based on observation of a living patient, and so cannot be determined by autopsy."

Sometims, it is amazed to how hard for people, very intelligent people in this case, to recognize and accept what they do not want to see.

Even though the point of the autopsy statement is that all the evidences supported the clinical diagnosis, but distinction between clinical and pathological is used to back the bias, and to imply that the right to ignore all the pathological evidences.