[supercat]

She has had multiple EEGs, the latest in 2002, and all were consistent with PVS - the report stated "no recognizable cerebral activity" even upon inducing painful stimuli.

The EEGs were described as "flatline". Given that the patient had some level of brain function (as evidenced by the fact that the brain had been keeping the body systems functioning for years), the "flat" EEG constitutes proof positive of one of three things:

1. The patient adminstering the test was incompetant and failed to realize that it should be redone.
2. The person administering the test was not interested in accurate results.
3. The person administering the test was overruled in his desire to have the test redone, by someone who was not interested in accurate results.

If a doctor taking a blood pressure reading can't find a pulse, he shouldn't call code or start adminstering CPR on a patient whose heart is obviously beating find. Whether or not Terri had much cognitive activity, the clinical behavior exhibited on the videos, plus the fact that she survived for years, is absolutely 100% inconsistent with a "flatline" EEG.

[Peach]

Keep reading the threads.

Terri had multiple EEG's. They all indicated no cognitive ability.

There are two regions of the brain that are examined. One determines whether we can breath on her own. She obviously could.

The other determines other stuff and that is the one that is one of the worst EEG's that doctors had ever seen.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

I am not comfortable when people advocate killing off those that are allegedly "brain dead".

Too many have shown no brain function on these tests but later have came out of the PVS or coma, sometimes about 20 years later and they've been aware the whole time.

Not to mention they'd have been dead if their families had killed them off mostly likely on a doctor's advice.

Just because these tests show a person as having no brain activity, these tests don't seem to be very reliable or else those giving them and reading the results are incompetent, we should err on the side of life since there is reasonable doubt that these people are in fact "gone".