DW377: So you think she's aware enough to know she's wearing diapers and you still think her brain is GONE
Two points. I didn't say she was aware. She isn't aware of anything. She is gone.
Secondly, I don't think her brain is gone. All of the doctors who have examined here -- including the parents' doctors agree that the brain is physically gone, missing, not there. The only disagreement is that the parents' doctors -- without a scintilla of support in any medical literature -- think that perhaps some of the cells in her brain stem which remains (and keeps her breathing) could be trained. Her brain is gone, folks. G-O-N-E. As Judge Greer said 13 years ago, "the court finds beyond all doubt that [Terri] is in a persistent vegetative state .... The medical evidence before this court conclusively establishes that she has no hope of ever regaining consciousness and therefore capacity."
I think the most humorous aspect of all this is the large number of people for whom an organism without a brain who had some bizarre form of 'food' shoved through her body and into her diapers for 15 years is somehow representative of their version of "life".
Do you think all humans who are in a state she is in should be starved until they die?
It's a simple, non-loaded question I'd like folks who share your point of view to answer. Thanks.