MBP Died, Need To Recover Data, Please Help!

Hi All,
So, my beloved MBP has bit the dust. When I turn it on, I see the sleep light turns on and hard disk activation for a second, then, nothing (the screen is always black and there is never a chime). After attempting multiple times to reset PRAM and SMC, nothing changes. So, I think my logic board may have died.
But, this is not my question. My question is the following:
I had Filevault turned on for my standard account. I also had Time Machine turned on for that account. Now, is it possible to take out the hard drive and open up the Filevault sparseimage on another Mac? If so, does it require the master password or the account password? Also, is it possible to recover my data from the Time Machine backup? And if so, how do I do that?
Please, I need to know. Years of graduate school work relies on this!

David, I'm not sure if I have an answer to your problem. But what about getting an external enclosure for the Internal HD and then connect it to another computer and boot from the now "External" HD. If that works then you can move the critical data off to another drive and then not have to worry about mounting a filevault sparceimage.

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