I don't think I can ever come close to explaining the pain one feels in a situation like that. Being unable to communicate and hearing people discuss and debate whether you live or die.
I empathize with Terri is some strange way I suppose.
The simple fact that she is alive should mean something to everyone here. Terri wants to live!!! If Terri did not want to live then she would have given up on her own.
Great point!
BTW, I think you should write up a brief memoir of you accident and its aftermath, when you were unable to communicate your desire to live, to those around you discussing if your case was hopeless, and whether you should be "allowed to die."
It's a rare perspective, I think, and might change some hearts.
I appreciate your posting your own personal experience. This is exactly what people overlook--that it may look like a person is "brain dead" or in a "permanent coma" but that is not often the case. Doctors as God. I thought those days were over.
After 15 years, trust me, she's trying.