Regarding Dr. Cranford: Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, and their supporters have used videotape to imply that she's not in a vegetative state, Cranford said.
"The tapes have been very very persuasive," Cranford said, because she still has reflexes that allow her to breathe, sleep and move her eyes.
Could you starve/dehydrate someone to death that smiled at her mother in resonse to her voice?