Since the parents lived on the joy that at least Terry could see them, and knew they were there for her,.....I thought the edict that she was BLIND was an especially nice touch. (mega sarcasm)
".....I thought the edict that she was BLIND was an especially nice touch. (mega sarcasm)"
- I to, was struck by how much the press wanted to believe that her life was useless and that they were on the right side of the argument when they urged that she should be systematically starved to death. During the press conference nobody asked the doctors whether she could feel or taste or hear. And if she was in a PVS, why did they feel the need to give the "vegetable" morphine and other pain relievers while they killed her?
Also, some reporters seemed to take comfort from the fact that she was not starved to death but she expired from dehydration. If you deprive any human of food and water, scientists will tell you that lack of water will kill you twice as fast as lack of food will. They were just playing with semantics, but somehow the reporters felt this was an important distinction.
While the two doctors who held the press conference started out with a veneer of scientific objectivity, as the meeting went along it became clear to me that they were only there to justify the decision to kill the patient.
Oh, I see (pardon the pun), the autopsy should have lied and not stated that she was blind. Yeah, right.