I wonder how often this happens and not only misses the news, but is accepted by uninformed family as inevitable. First the victim is pronounced "brain dead', then organ harvest time and they (try to) convince the family it is noble when all they wanted in the first place is the parts.
Thankfully, the parents responded. They won that round now will have to keep vigilant, I imagine, to ensure he gets proper care and proves them wrong on the "brain dead" label.
Poor kid's birthday is same as my wife's.
It happened in my own (extended) family a year or so ago. The victim was still breathing unaided -- ergo, not brain dead -- but the family didn't want to hear it and I had no say in the matter. She was duly carved up for organs.
But she's eleven years older.
what up with Mikey blogging? Didn't he get what he wanted? Terri's deceased. If that's what he wanted, why is he mad at anyone??? Why is he mad at the president? Terri's gone. She wasn't rescued. Maybe Howard Dean paid Mikey to blame Bush. I blame Bush too but because he's supposed to protect all the people and he couldn't even save one woman.