DEEP_6 ADDED: "The cerebral cortex can not be replaced or replenished; it can not grow back; it can not be transplanted."
DEEP_6 ADDED: "Without a cerebral cortex, an individual ceases to be an individual."
I AM RESPONDING: "How many and what kind of tests have been run to determine exactly WHAT Teri's condition is?"
I AM ADDING: "My husband and I were told by "Almighty-God" Doctors that our newborn daughter would not live more than 26 days--and now she is NINETEEN YEARS OLD!
I AM ADDING: "I was the victim of an aggravated assault and was told after numerous x-rays, a CAT scan, and an MRI that there was NOTHING that several Doctors could see that was causing intense pain below my right eye-cheek area. I DEMANDED that the eye Doctor operate to put in a plate under my eye (I had a blowout fracture) and find whatever was causing my pain. As I was waking up from surgery, the Doctor told my father, husband and me that it is a GOOD thing I DEMANDED that he go in there---that it was "the worst thing he had ever seen"---FAR worse than the scans indicated."
I AM ADDING: "My point is that DOCTORS ARE NOT GODS! Doctors don't KNOW everything!"
DEEP_6 WROTE: "There is a total loss of coherency; the individual is rendered to a vegetated state. There is no chance for any recovery from that state."
DEEP_6 ADDED: "Terri is truly in a vegetated state and has been for 13 years."
I AM RESPONDING: "Are you blind? Have you not seen the videos of her RESPONDING APPROPRIATELY? Have you not heard that when she was told by phone prior to the feeding tube being removed last month that if she didn't get up out of bed that she would be "killed" (or "starved to death"---I don't recall right now which wording was used)---and she RESPONDED APPROPRIATELY---she SUDDENLY and FRANTICALLY STYRUGGLED to JUMP up out of the chair she was in?"
I AM ADDING: "That doesn't sound like someone in a vegetative state to me! So why not give Terri $750,000 worth of REHAB THERAPY that she was awarded---and that "LOVING" Hitleresque-husband Michael POCKETED---from the malpractice law suit? What would it HURT to TRY spending HER REHAB money on HER REHAB THERAPY?"
DEEP_6 WROTE: "Terri had been placed on a feeding apparatus due to her inability to swallow voluntarily. She can not live without that feeding device; that feeding device in the State of Florida is considered a life support system, since the individual can not survive without it's usage."
I AM RESPONDING: "PLEASE GET EDUCATED!!!!! Do you even know what a G-Tube (aka "feeding tube") is????? It is a piece of natural-rubber-colored, stethescope-type tubing which is about 12" long and has either a stretchable or inflatable bulb on the end to keep it inside the stomach. YOU could have one and NO ONE WOULD KNOW---Should we KILL YOU for that?"
I AM ADDING: "It is rolled up and taped to the body and it DOESN'T SHOW from under clothes. At feeding time, the end has a plug in it which is removed and a 60 cc syringe is inserted to "gravity-feed" or the plunger is used to push the food in. THAT'S IT!!!!! There is NO MACHINE INVOLVED!!!!! It is a SIMPLE TUBE! And YOU want to KILL her for just having one!!!!! That's SICK!!!!!"
DEEP_6 WROTE: "Since Terri can not and never will regain any consciousness to allow her to ever converse, or have any voluntary movement, she is considered in a vegetative state."
DEEP_6 ADDED: "Terri has been in this vegetative state for 13 years. Removing her from a life support system is a decision a guardian must decide."
I AM RESPONDING: "See my comment above. Terri is NOT in a "vegetative state"!!!!! She needs her $750,000 of REHAB THERAPY!!!!!"
DEEP_6 WROTE: "No-one remains on a mechanical life support system indefinitely; if there is no chance for recovery, no chance for any coherency, and no chance to ever have the ability to engage a voluntary movement, then forcing a soul to be contained in a lifeless shell of a body is more inhuman; more sacrilegious, that to allow it to pass."
I AM RESPONDING: "I CHALLENE YOU to go talk with PARENTS of mentally and/or physically handicapped kids. Go to a Special Needs School and talk with the teachers. ASK THEM if they believe that there's "no chance of recovery" or "no chance for improvement" or if their children "are worth letting live." I CHALLENGE YOU TO GET EDUCATED!!! I GUARANTEE YOU---the parents and teachers will say they ARE alive and their lives ARE worth living!"
DEP_6 ADDED: "Terri's dead; let her soul rest in peace."
I AM ADDING: "NO! Let's let GOD DECIDE when she is dead! NOT YOU, NOT A JUDGE---GOD!!!