[Dave S]

Can "vegtables" speak as Terri can?

If she can speak then wheel into the court room and have her testify...otherwise, assume the assorted noises you hear are random and not conscious pleadings for live.

[pollywog]

If she can speak then wheel into the court room and have her testify...otherwise, assume the assorted noises you hear are random and not conscious pleadings for live.

From a mother of two special needs children ,I say YOU ARE WRONG!!!!......just because the words seem unitelligible to some, they are not to a parent.!!! Her eyes also speak VOLUMES....watch the video again.

[shhrubbery!]

the assorted noises you hear are random and not conscious pleadings for live

"The assorted noises you hear" are Terri's responses to her parents, e.g. her mother's talking playing music for her.

Have you watched the videos on Terri's website?

If you haven't, please go to the links in post 54.

No one who hasn't seen those videos, in their entirety, is qualified to say that Terri is a "vegetable."

I have seen many brain-damaged patients, from accident victims to stroke victims. It is very difficult for some of them to speak. Their attempts seem, at first, like unintelligible grunts.

Actress Patricia Neal, after her series of strokes in the 1960s, had to re-learn to walk and talk. It took years of therapy --thank God her husband, Roald Dahl, practically forced her into therapy-- but now she speaks fluently.

[sunryse]

>If she can speak then wheel into the court room and have >her testify...otherwise, assume the assorted noises you >hear are random and not conscious pleadings for live.

Would be great to do, but the husband won't allow it, and the judge doesn't care.

Maybe you should go INVESTIGATE the facts of this case instead of talking out your rear.

[agrace]

Why should she not be given the benefit of the doubt? My God, what if she is in there? If there is any chance, don't we have an obligation to lean that way rather than the other?

Truth is, the doctor opinion is widely conflicting - many doctors have said she is NOT in a vegetative state and many more have volunteered to be of service in her therapy, believing they can help her. Doesn't she deserve the opportunity to try?

She hasn't been given ANY therapy!

Just a couple months ago, in July I think, we read here on FR about the man who suddenly began to speak after nineteen years of silence. He's now on the road to complete recovery and I bet he's pretty happy his parents stuck by him.

She deserves a chance.