Terri is not brain dead. Her eyes open and I saw a video of her on TV tonight where her eyes were following a balloon as it went over her head. Brain Dead people can't do that! I've seen brain dead people for myself in the ICU at East texas Medical Center in Tyler and it wasn't pretty. terri looks nothing like these brain dead people I saw!
This is a new terminology made up by those who are in the pro-death crowd. "Persistent Vegetative State", the diagnosis given to Terry, can be applied to just about anyone who has any sort of brain damage. Someone can be in a Persistent Vegetative State even if they can eat! In fact, most people in a "Persistent Vegetative State" recover within a year. Even people in a long-term "Persistent Vegetative State" have about a 10% recovery rate, and no studies have even been done that correlate treatment with recovery from "Persistent Vegetative States".
The whole term is just made up to make people feel better about pulling the plug on the disabled.