I've seen the video from 4 years ago and she is in a permanant vegetative state. Morphine drip would be very humane. Please cite a case of someone coming back after 15 years of a permanent vegetative state.
Go away and come back when you know what you are talking about.
Sarah Scandlin came back after 20 years in a PVS.
What are your credentials? Are you a neurologist?
I suggest that you go to the Congressional Record and read Senator (Doctor) Bill Frist's speech at the end of the day on Thursday. Then tell me about PVS.
I've seen several people on this thread direct you to the information you have requested. Please read and quit requesting it again.
Morphine drip would be humane. Of course. You know what we could do? We could get a bunch of disabled, brain damaged, and other useless eater types, and put them in a shed. Then we close the doors, and put the exhaust pipe from an internal combustion engine into the shed. All the Vegetables inside would just humanely and peacefully go to sleep. Just think how many people we could help at one time with this procedure?
Interesting you should say that. Back it up, why don't you? Because I disagree, and I have experience caring for patients with brain damaged-aware-awake AND persistent vegetative state patients. There's quite a difference, and Terri is not PVS, in my nursing opinion.
Do you suffer from double post syndrome also?
"Please cite a case of someone coming back after 15 years of a permanent vegetative state."
I can't remember the lady's name. It is something Adamson, I believe. She had her tube pulled for 8 days. She said she knew what was going on and wanted to live. She said it was very painful. Luckily, her husband was able to get it reinserted. The doctors thought he was just a looney religious nut. She is now fighting for Terri.
I'll agree and I bet many others here will agree with me that you are an expert on "permanant (sic) vegetative state".
Have you seen HER reaction to being told they were going to pull the tube?
http://www.terrywallisfund.org/pages/1/index.htm
Read it and then make your argument!
A morphine drip isn't even in the discussion. Never was. You know she doesn't even meet Florida's threshold for PVS?
And if she is, as you say, in a PVS, why do they give her morphine each time she has the tube put in or out? It's because she feels pain.
I presume that you are not aware that "permanant vegetative state" is a phrase with specific legal meaning in Florda law. Allow me to elucidate:
765.101
(12) "Persistent vegetative state" means a permanent and irreversible condition of unconsciousness in which there is: (a) The absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior of any kind. (b) An inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment.
Both conditions must be satisfied to be given the label. Terri does not fall into either.