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.
Without an autopsy I am not sure exactly what happened to him. The nurse came in to clean him up and shave him. The day before she told me she doesn't shave patients. We then said we would go get lunch while she was doing this. They also took him off the morfine machine and put a morphine patch on him which I think did him in. We hadn't been in the cafeteria but a few minutes when they came and got us and said he was dead.
The death certificate said heart attack and the doctor had said that his heart gave out.
I think maybe the terrible neck pain could have been his carotid artery as I saw a black and blue mark about where the carotid artery is after he died and I asked the doctor about it. He said something about the blood gathered there, but everything I have heard is the blood gathers to the back if laying on the back.