[MHGinTN]

Do you realize that a flat EEG would be a cadaver, not someone who swallows and responds minimally, breathes on her own and has normal bodily functions? Do you even know what a flat EEG means, what an EEG records? Do you understand the term 'contradictory' as it applies to absolutely absurd assertions regarding 'brain dead'/flat EEG and minimal conscious state with concomitant EEG readings?

[Peach]

No, a flat EEG would not necessarily be a cadaver.

There are two regions of the brain that EEG's test. I've forgotten which is which but one (top or bottom) controls breathing and if that one is flat, you are indeed dead.

The other controls other stuff and that is the one that Terri had. For example, massive stroke victims with no brain activity are indeed breathing on their own. But they can't do anything else. They have no cognitive abilities, etc. Sometimes. Many kinds of strokes, of course.