[supercat]

None of the speculation about MS has been proven - which is supposed to be how it works.

I assert the following:

1. Michael Schiavo as refused to allow many of the tests that a competant neurologist would consider essential prior to labeling someone incurably PVS.
2. Although a 30-second exam may in some cases suffice to prove absolutely that a patient is not PVS, a meaningful diagnosis of PVS requires considerably more than an hour's examination of the patient.
3. The doctors who declared Terri to be incurably PVS(*) examined her for less than an hour each.
4. (*)A diagnosis of PVS historically meant nothing more nor less than that no unmistakable signs of cognition had been discovered yet. There is a big difference between that meaning and the implied one that no cognition exists.

Do you dispute any or all of these assertions?

[The Coopster]

You forgot to add the part where recent brain scans show her entire cerebral cortex area to have basically turned to mush.

And your assertions have zero to do with my viewpoints/opinions here - other than to reinforce that folks will seize on any circumstantial evidence to support their view. None of your "assertions" do anything to prove MS's intentions, or anyone else's for that matter. It's just speculation - which thank goodness doesn't sway juries in the criminal system.