[supercat]

With all respect, the real problem is that Terry can't make the decision for herself. If she could, she could tap a finger, twitch a toe, blink an eye -- all of those things they always do on TV when under the influence of some mysterious South American paralyzing drug. But she can't. So someone has to make those decisions for her. Whom should it be? The husband, the parents or, now as urged here, the state?

Some people have been pushing for years to get her testing and therapy so she could do precisely that. Some people have been pushing to prevent same.

Which group should be more credible?

[winstonchurchill]

Some people have been pushing for years to get her testing and therapy so she could do precisely that. Some people have been pushing to prevent same. Which group should be more credible?

I'm afraid, dear cat, that you have been smoking some of that illegal substance again. All doctors who have examined her -- that is ALL, including the parents' doctors -- agree that her brain is gone, dissolved, nonexistent and replaced by spinal fluid. All that is left is her brain stem.

The disagreement -- the only disagreement -- is that the parents' doctors contend -- without an ounce of support in any medical literature anywhere -- that a few of the cells in her brain stem might be able to be trained with enough 'experimental therapy.'

This is not the case of a normal functioning individual who simply can't communicate (ala TV). This is a human with no brain whom some people want to keep force fed and in diapers forever in surface to a physical-life-at-any-cost premise.

She did not want this.