[Zevonismymuse]

Terry opens here eyes, she tries to speak. She is NOT in a coma. My beloved family members were in a coma, as if in a permanent sleep, eyes CLOSED.

Your family members may have had a better chance of recovery than Terri Shiavo, whose cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed.

[Bushforlife]

"Your family members may have had a better chance of recovery than Terri Shiavo, whose cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed."

How do you know?

[andyk]

whose cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed

I don't believe anyone knows that conclusively. An MRI would be required to conclude what you've said, and no MRI has ever been done.

[LibertarianInExile]

Aw, jeez, now you're in for it. What were you thinking, bringing cold hard facts to an emotional argument? Next thing you know you'll be arguing it's unconstitutional, when we know the Right Thing To Do® is to let her live so Congress can create jurisdiction for the federal courts based on public outcry.

I hardly even want to open myself up for the attacks by replying to or bumping your post, but I will. What's the point of replying to these people? All they want to do is vilify you for taking a second to think about the case, instead of simply emoting about it and how awful the courts are and how someone oughta pass a law, instead of agitating for the impeachment of the Florida judges who are at fault! If Republicans TRULY want this problem solved, they cannot solve it by taking the liberal route, passing more laws for more judges to misinterpret. They should be removing those judges in the FLORIDA legislature, which they are certainly not about to do.

These laws are a complete waste of time, padding lawyer pocketbooks and merely postponing the inevitable. We are under judicial rule, and until that is fixed, the killings will continue.

[Daisy4]

We do not know if the cerebral cortex has been destroyed because there has never been an MRI, which is sthe definitive diagnose for PVS. There are reputable neurologists that insist that Terri can be rehabilitated. Why not give her a chanace? You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. What is her so-called husband afraid of and what are his motives for wanting her dead. He has never ever authorized and rehab or PT for her. In fact, her teeth are rotting for lack of proper medical care.

[yatros from flatwater]

If you were a medical student or resident physician your neurological examination of Mrs. Schiavo wouldn't pass muster.

If you had viewed any of the video available on the net of Mrs. Schiavo, you would have noted by simple observation alone that while she shows evidence of cerebral damage, she shows no clinical evidence of decerebration or decortication.

[AmericanArchConservative]

>"a better chance of recovery than Terri Shiavo, whose cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed."<

Your assertion is medically inaccurate. Terri suffers from some brain damage, yes, but she is not brain dead, nor anything approaching it. Chances are better than average that the damage was sustained as a result of a beating by Michael Schiavo, and if meaningful therapy was given to her on a regular basis, who can say whether she might recover, and to what extent?

Always choose life!

Because God commands it!

A.A.C.

[UCANSEE2]

whose cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed.

You are assuming this is true. The doctors disagreed on this point. If actually true, how does she sit upright in a chair? How does she vocalize words like "mom", "paaa" (for pain)?

How does she have the ability to smile at people she likes, and not look at people that she distrusts?