I don't know?
I don't know what being in a PVS is like? Maybe it's like being on a constant good buzz from marjuana ...I don't know! Do you?
All I know, is I've worked with the Wheelchair Association in Ireland (where I live), and I've changed colostomy bags, etc. of people who are completely incapacitated..and who are completely mentally deficient...but I'd never say those people would will themselves to be dead when they are stimulated by different sights and sounds when we are on a trip away. Never. I'm glad you feel like you can speak for all the disabled in the world, though. I've yet to take on such omnipresence.
Well said Happygal! Doctors tend to think they know everything. They can even tell you what your symptoms are before you tell them you know.
What would an MRI show?
Also she can't get an MRI because of a thalamic implant that was placed several years ago.
I don't know?
I don't know what being in a PVS is like? Maybe it's like being on a constant good buzz from marjuana ...I don't know! Do you?
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LOL! I've argued this same point on other boards, that we JUST DON'T KNOW. Why is her life less valuable than yours or mine?
How do we know if PVS is "permanent". Who knows what is in store in the future?
How often do we hear of people who are paralyzed, and are not supposed to ever walk again? I can name two who are defying that diagnosis. Dennis Byrd and Mike Utley who both broke their necks playing football. They are defying the odds. Babies born over 4 months early are now surviving. It may have happened back in the 70's when I was born, but was considerably more rare. I spent 2 months in the hospital being born almost three months early.
If I have a heartbeat, can breathe, and am not brain dead, than I am alive, and I have a chance to recover. The chance may be small, but it is not the place for jerk judges to decide to take that chance away.
I can't see how anyone with a soul or conscience sentence someone to die by starvation(and there's no way in hell that's painless and peaceful). It's even worse considering that she may very well have had a chance to recover with the right support. We just don't know, and that chance is being taken away thanks to some jerk judges (and a lot of gutless wonders who follow their decrees) who are doing so on the word of an adulterer 7 years after the fact once the money comes in. That just ain't right.