I casually mentioned Terri to my barber, and he was surprised.
"what do you mean? She's been in a COMA for 15 years hasn't she?"
He later indicted he got all his information from CNN.
Over the course of the haircut he got a pretty good education and seemed convinced it was worth studying himself.
This happens with a lot of people. Years ago, I used to read in the papers that Terri was brain dead, that the husband wanted to remove her from life support and that the parents were just giving him a hard time. Naturally, I took them for their word.
I was listening to Glenn Beck one morning tell a very different story, so I decided to look into it myself. I only then learned that Terri was cognizant, only receiving assisted sustenance for a few hours every day and that the husband had his own family and had not allowed rehab for years on end.
Very different image, obviously.
Someone near and dear to me had to recieve assisted sustenance for quite a while. It's not life support. It's simple maintenance. Taking it away with the sole purpose of killing the patient is wrong and you don't have to look too deep to figure that out.
The media has done as much a disservice to this woman as the courts. It pains me to no end.
Oh, so you pointed out to him that she was in a PVS and that the video clips that they keep REPLAYING OVER AND OVER were culled from HOURS of video wherein it was clear that her actions were random or ortherwise not indicative of cognition? That her cerebral cortex has liquified, and that her condition is irreversable?