[Yaelle]

I have not read this thread. I am just popping in here because I just heard the "news" on the radio that her autopsy did not show anything to contradict that she was in a vegetative state - um, HELLOOO? How could an AUTOPSY show that she could respond to her loved ones??? How could an autopsy show that she could have learned to eat soft foods and drink from a cup if held to her lips??? They killed her because she couldn't raise a cup to her lips, for the love of G-d.

The next thing the news said was that this shows she never would have recovered. OH? So we starve people who won't?? I remember in school when we studied the nomads, and how when someone was ill, they would just leave that person behind and move the caravans on, because they just could not care for the sick. How cruel and horrible I thought that was. And now we are doing the same thing. If you can't recover, well, then we will starve you! I feel sorry for all the people with severe illnesses like cancer, AIDS, Alzheimers, all the people who can't feed themselves any more. They all deserve to be slowly killed over a period of two weeks because they won't get better. What kind of world is that????

OK, I've vented. But this is really a sickening precedent.

[TBP]

I just heard the "news" on the radio that her autopsy did not show anything to contradict that she was in a vegetative state

Which, if it were true, would prove NOTHING. Saying that there is no evidence to contradict it is not the same as saying that the evidence proves it.