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If the CAT scan was indeed Terri's I don't see why an MRI or other test would be needed. All an MRI would do is clearly define the edges of the damage. The damage is massive. (I also don't look for my car keys after I find them.) Another reason there was no MRI or other scans is because there were some electrodes that were implanted to stimulate Terri's brain. The goal was to keep her gray matter from turning into goo. It didn't work. Those electrodes would cause a small lightning bolt (Like in a microwave oven) if she had been put in an MRI machine. Granted that would of been quicker than starvation, but I digress. At some time you have to say enough people have looked at the patient and come up with the same conclusion, and come to whatever conclusion you will come up with. They could of tested, prodded, pinched, poked Terri till the cows came home, but the CAT scan still said there was a huge chunk of her gray matter missing.

There is a very simple test to see if someone is aware of pain, just dig a knuckle into their breastbone and watch their reaction. I firmly believe if Terri could pass that simple test the Schindlers would of had those pictures all over the 5:00 news. Any EMT knows this trick. In the depths of all the information that was made public why wasn't something as simple as her reaction to pain made public? I believe it is because she did/would of failed the test. This could of been done without the need of an MD, Phd, or JD.

Unlike most FReepers I'm willing to give Michael the benefit of the doubt and leave any judgement to the almighty. I think he tried the electrodes to help her, eventually realized part of her brain, a very important part, was liquified and with the best information available decided Terri would not want to live like that.

I'll even go so far as to say it would of been easier for him to walk away from this instead of going through this BS of a media circus and unrelenting and quite often misinformed/uninformed slander that has been made against him.

The reason he hasn't told the Shindlers where Terri's ashes are is he wants her to rest in peace. Not be the focus of yet another cycle of the media circus. That is part of why I believe Michael has taken many of the steps he has taken.

"There is a very simple test to see if someone is aware of pain, "

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Did you know that within the first year that Terri was receiving physical therapy, she indicated that the therapy was painful and that is why they did the bonescan?

Nurses also said in their sworn deposition, that Terri indicated, when she was in pain, as in the time when she had a urinary infection.

So, very clearly she was able to feel pain.