My step-father had a living will and yet when he was suffering terrible neck pain and went to the hospital, when they asked him if he had one he told them No!
To me that goes to show when faced with the possibility of death a person still wants to live.
He had given me his living will so I took it to the hospital even though he said he didn't have one. He then suffered a massive heart attack and died. If they hadn't of had the living will on file they would have had to preform life saving messures such as CPR.
I at times feel bad that I took the living will to them when he said "No" he didn't have one. They may have brought him around for a short time, but he had an artificial pig valve over 13 yrs old and also had, had 2 open heart surgery's. Also he was 83 yrs old.
Oh my. He had a terrible neck pain and it was a massive heart attack? My dad has had 2 massive and 1 stroke. Getting back to whether Terri is brain dead...When my mom had a seizure while being treated for lung cancer, they did a test to determine brain wave and the way they explained it to us was that what made mom, mom, so to speak, was gone. But she couldn't respond or move in any way.