Except for her brain, which had been gone for years. And her eyes, putting the lie to her family's desperate need to believe that she could see them.
Terri was dead for a very long time before the feeding tube was removed. Her heart just didn't know it.
Keep telling yourself that. It helps to repeat it over and over before going to sleep. Soon it will be fact for you regardless of any uncomfortable truths.
Um hello, Terri was brain damaged, not brain dead. If her heart didn't know she was dead neither did her lungs, eyes, voice, etc.... Seems to me that when these things still function than someone is clearly alive.
Why are you and others so desperate to "prove" that Terri was brain dead? Do you know what "brain dead" looks like? She was brain damaged, not brain dead. Yes, her eyesight was impaired. The ME judged her to be blind, after she was starved and dehydrated for 13 days. Her eyeballs probably looked like shriveled peas.
Brain dead=flatline response. If your brain is dead, you don't breathe on your own, you don't try and cooperate with visitors asking you to follow an object, and you most certainly cannot attempt to communicate. If you are brain dead, your heart doesn't beat on its' own. Look it up, call your physician and ask him/her, if you don't believe me.
I long for the day that people who refuse to "get it", stay off these threads. There is a wealth of information about Terri, her condition, and her marriage, but there are those folks who would rather sit here and flame away.
There are NO amount of medical tests, experts or diagnostic tools that can say for CERTAIN what an individual can or cannot think or feel; only that person and God knows for sure.
It is obvious that you have a very shallow view of the precious nature of human life.
And at the bottom of it all, no matter what her condition was, IT WASN'T THE CHEATING HUSBAND'S DECISION TO MAKE! HE HAD NO RIGHT TO CLAIM THAT HE KNEW WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE WANTED IN THIS SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCE.
I still cannot believe that an alleged "passing comment" by someone many years ago could be used as "concrete proof" of what they would want in any particular medical circumstance. It goes beyond common sense.