Posted on 03/29/2005 8:58:34 AM PST by Long Cut
Of course it matters; if they asked her to shut her eyes and she didn't, they're selectively editing it.
LOL.....I don't approve of that either. I wonder if Todd is acting as a consultant on the jingo-isms. Reminds me of the Lott go 'rounds.
Thanks. I feel for her parents but after wading through all the information, I have come to the conclusion that they are kooks.
They simply cannot and have never been able to let go even prior to Terri's collapse. They sold their home in PA and moved to FL shortly after she and Michael moved there years before the accident. They are incapable of butting out.
Look at the statement of the mother yesterday (paraphrase) "Give me back my child."
Sure, but we're talking about people w/all their faculties.
Terri is not in that category..90% of her brain is not viable.
I know it looks like Terri is just disabled, but she's not disabled. She has a flat EEG. Some doctors have said it's the worst brain damage they've ever seen.tder oath she is PVS?
Her spontanteous eye movements and gutteral sounds are consistent with someone who has PVS.
I know that every day in this country people are removed from feeding tubes. Without Living Wills. These decisions have been made between families and their doctors for years.
Considering how much money doctors make keeping people alive on tubes and machines, I think it's unfortunate that people think there is a money component for doctors in this matter. I have not found it to be a valid concern.
We can now extend life, all life, for longer and longer periods of time. And for those who wish to be kept alive indefinitely on a feeding tube or other method, please make that clear to your families. Those of us who do not wish to be kept alive in such a manner have made that clear.
I know we don't agree on this matter, and that's okay. So let's just agree to disagree, Scarlet.
Nice dodge; the first rule when you can't defend your own statement is to try to cast doubt on the other person's.
Do you think Terri IS tracking the balloon? Because if she is tracking the balloon, then she's got cognitive abilities and all of the doctors have said she doesn't.
Do you live in Texas? I do. CNN et al are using Sun to discredit Bush. If you read the law concerning cases like Suns, you'll see what they are reporting is not true.
The fact that mom couldn't find a hospital to care for Sun had nothing to do with money.
Todd's got his own problems; they're making a run on the BB to get him off of it.
So her life depends on how many times she obeys the doctors commands? Remember, we're not arguing whether she's brain damaged or not. There are retarded persons all over this world who respond like her. Are you suggesting they are non persons?
Oh. I see.
If I don't promote anarchy and lawlessness, I must be a murderer.
I hear ya.
Exactly.
I live in Nevada.
That's what I understood; it's not the money, it's the viability, right?
Well .. something in her brain is working if she can do the things that are on record
Remember the manifesto of the coalition of the sane speaks to facts, not propaganda. Do you have a source reference for this? Just because you want it to be so doesn't make it true.
Are you deliberately twisting my words?
The fact of the video is not disgusting. Terri is not disgusting. Parents selling a video of their daughter as she lies in a bed with PVS and advertising the selling of the video is repugnant. To me. You obviously do not find it so. That's why this is America.
They are cherry-picking frames.
I ask you a plain question; you're equivocating.
And I remember you saying you've seen ADD kids that look just like her.
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