She was genuinely braindead. She was sincerely unable to control any voluntary functions. That itself is haunting, that our bodies can live on as puppets controlled by the involuntary functions our brainstem performs because grieving and misguided family members would forcefeed the shells of our bodies.
Er, you can't edit posts here but I meant braindamaged rather than braindead. Her brainstem was still functioning, performing the body's standard involuntary functions, so she was not clinically braindead.
I agree with you. I am a very pro-life person, but I failed to see how this case was different from the thousands of other cases where someone with no hope of recovery is removed from life support each year. A lot of people got hoodwinked in the Schivo matter. The simple fact is that modern technology allows us to keep physical bodies alive long past when the mind and sprit are gone. If there is any minute reasonable hope that someone will ever recover, we need to use these technologies. If we are just keeping alive bodies when the mind has zero chance of ever recovering, then we are doing nothing but playing god and that person should be allowed to return to the lord. Teri was brain dead, and had no chance of ever waking up again. Her cerebral cortex had ceased working, and her EEG was flat. None of the kook's conspiracy theories (and i'm sure i'll hear them all again after posting this) change this. There was a zero percent chance she'd ever wake again, and after fifteen years it was time to let her go. This should have been a private matter for her family like the thousands of other cases (most less severe than hers) a year when someone is taken off of life support.
Congress coming back into session over this was one of the most disgusting displays of political grandstanding i’ve ever seen. It was nothing but a cheap attempt to distract us from more important issues like the borders, and outrageous federal spending. Seeing all the Jesse Jackson type charlatans and attention hounds flock to this case was equally disgusting. None of them cared a whit about Teri.
The last physician to see her on the fourth day of her last dehydration, starvation was a Florida DCF doctor who diagnosed her as "semi-conscious." And this diagnosis was made after four days of no food or water.
It would have been more humane to put a slug in her head than let starve like she did. Try this with horse or a dog and PETA and every lefty organization would be all over it.
Person,
Are U brain dead yourself?
Did you read NOTHING valid ABOUT THIS CASE?
I feel sorry for you.
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