I pretty much responded because I watched that particular Abram's report and believe Abram's was a rather condescending advocate for Michael Schiavo. The deck was stacked.
But, I've watched other news shows on the same network where the medical experts mostly came to the same conclusion: Terri Schindler was in a persistent vegetative state. She was not brain dead, the mark we mostly accept as the definition for death, but she was never going to come out of that state.
Since she was not legally dead, and food and water were deliberately withheld, she was effectively euthanized.
All the rest is argument over quality of life, i.e., whether or not some person's life is worth living. In this instance, people argue that the personality was gone and there is was no awareness of self or others, so Terri Schindler's life was not worth living. Consequently, she was put to death by omission.
there we go, basicly the same conclusion I came to. I'm no dummie, I can read scans and x rays, and see for myself without any comment that the poor kid just didn't have any hope. There is no doubt that she is completely braindead, and the eeg is flat ( not ekg) But it's not even a big point to argue, because her cerebal cortex is missing. Conpletely.
I don't agree that they should have did this the way they did.
They could have waited till emotions cooled, even done a few more tests just to satisfy the Schindlers, help them come to see the facts. Cooler heads could have prevailed.