I really don't want to get caught up in assumptions. I don't know why they stopped the tape. It could have been a number of reasons. Are you positive they were selectively editing? I believe it doesn't matter. When asked to open her eyes, she did so. That is not brain dead to me and for a lot of others on this board.
And when asked to close her eyes, they cut it off.
In the last week alone, there have been over a dozen articles about that tape and how misleading it is. I haven't saved them but they are on FR if you don't mind looking through the other 500 Terri articles.
The Schindlers also should stop lying. Terri's sister has been on television all week saying that Terri never had a heart attack and therefore the reason for her PVS is mysterious.
No one ever said she had a heart attack and the sister knows it. Terri had cardiac arrest, an entirely different thing.
THen the sister has gone on to talk mysteriously about broken bones and the family just wants to know about those. Terri did have one single solitary broken bone when she presented at the hospital. Not one. SHe had a hairline fracture in two places. One where EMS may have done CPR before they realized she was still breathing and the other in her neck from her fall.
Go to Trinity_Tx home page on Free Republic; it's all there. The hospital discharge summary. The doctors, neurologists, etc.
Then ask yourself, if Terri had broken bones when she got to the hospital, why didn't the doctor mention them or treat them?
If the family truly believed that Michael tried to strangle Terri, why did they wait 12 years to make the charge? Why didn't the doctors and Terri's family notice bruise marks? When the doctors were sued by Michael for malpractice, why didn't they defend themselves and say "we didn't do anything wrong, Michael tried to kill her"?
How can you explain her low potassium? Her low calcium? Her malnourished state? Her bone loss due to bulimia? Those things are NOT connected to Michael trying to kill her.
Why would all these doctors lie about her condition? Neurologist? Therapist? Terri's OWN parents admitted under oath she's PVS.
And PVS patients make spontaneous gestures and noises and eye movements.