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They were two completely different things that were going on there. Donald was in a semi-lucid state and would talk every once in a while. Terri was in a constant vegetative state where portion of her brain was replaced with spinal fluid. Not much recovery going on there.

This little girl is also not in a constant vegetative state. She has a chance. Please give the Terri issue a rest.

I think that what happened with Terri was a big travesty, but mostly because the media took too much of an interest in it. This was a private family issue that should never have been brought out into the public.

(Also, remember if you are on the same side of an argument as Jesse Jackson, you might want to rethink your position /sarc)

Sorry, I will attempt to NEVER mention Terri on any thread again. How's that? When someone says she died in 1991, I feel entitled to respond to their ignorance. Perhaps you should do some additional reading about Mr. Herbert before showing yours. Once he went to a nursing home (about 2 1/2 yrs. after his accident) his doctors considered him "near" PVS. He was not semi-lucid except for the brief time after he awakened from the coma and according to what I have read, that is when ALL the photos we've seen were taken. He was transferred to the nursing home because his condition continued downhill until his present MD, Ahmed, thought he was PVS, "near" PVS, close to PVS, etc. because he sat and drooled all day in front of a TV he could not see and responded to nothing. In addition, I did NOT say "this little girl is also not in a constant vegetative state;" you did. I did not say ANYTHING at all about the little girl. I replied to someone else who never mentioned the little girl.

Thank you for your meaningless remarks and I will certainly endeavor to follow all the new rules that you are making for posters on FR. Now that you make the rules for posting here, perhaps you would care to post them somewhere so we can all be certain to follow them.

>...if you are on the same side of an argument as Jesse Jackson...<

Jesse ONLY appears for the publicity.
It has NOTHING to do with principle.
If he DID care about Terri, he would have shown up much earlier.