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To: nicmarlo

It is a shame about the autopsy. What Terri needed and what Greer denied over and over and over again was a Functional MRI and a PET scan. These are done to see what is happening inside an "alive" brain. I will never accept an autopsy that shows she was PVS. I don't think an autopsy would have much value to prove PVS. It is her "live" brain that should be tested.

Actually I believe even if she IS PVS she still deserves to live. Food and water are not extraordinary medicine, but ordinary care and should be provided to everyone unless there is a living will stating their wishes otherwis. To me PVS is a non starter as a reason someone is deemed not worthy of living. When we do that we are evalution people's right to life based on their quality of life, and that is Euthanasia.


2,950 posted on 03/29/2005 6:47:50 PM PST by ExPatInFrance (JUDGE GREER: LAST RITES INSTEAD OF CIVIL RIGHTS, "The Law of the case is she is going to Die!")
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To: ExPatInFrance
Food and water are not extraordinary medicine, but ordinary care and should be provided to everyone unless there is a living will stating their wishes otherwis. To me PVS is a non starter as a reason someone is deemed not worthy of living. When we do that we are evalution people's right to life based on their quality of life, and that is Euthanasia.

I completely agree.

2,996 posted on 03/29/2005 7:09:30 PM PST by nicmarlo
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