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Carrie Hutchins in Dakota Voice...

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I still remember writing to an editor and asking her to make some corrections to an editorial she had written on Terri Schiavo. Though I had actual proof of her errors, she wrote back and said she was standing by the facts as written in the editorial. "Standing by the facts as written in the editorial"? Inaccurate information became fact because she wrote that it was? How interesting. I didn't ask her to take my word. I offered to send her a copy of the actual autopsy report. My offer was met with silence. And so goes the saga of the Terri Schiavo case. How many care about the truth any ways?

In recent days, I read a comment that suggested that Terri Schiavo was in fact brain dead or the religious right would have jumped right on that issue, they didn't (supposedly) and therefore she was. I wonder where he was or where he hopes we were?

How many times have people made it a big deal that "three" people said that Terri made statements that she would not want to be kept alive on life support? Test time. How many can name who the three people were and what their relationship was to Michael?

Not Allowed to Pass On: The Execution of an Innocent

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Terri's Legacy List

(Original Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to September 22.)

Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

When is an embryo not an embryo? .....

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Last year the British and American papers were replete with the story relating to the legal battle over the life of Terri Schiavo who had been involved in a car accident and who subsequently developed a vegetative state following a US court ruling that a feeding tube should be removed.

Using sensitive "functional magnetic resonance imaging" techniques (functional MRI), which are capable of detecting areas of the brain that are functioning at any one time, neuroscientists have now shown that certain parts of the brain "light up" when such patients are asked questions or stimulated by conversation, indicating that different parts of the brain were responding and distinguishing between different scenarios.

The practical outcome of such findings is to emphasise the fact that current and standard techniques for determining brain death may have to be updated to include expensive functional MRI techniques before one could be absolutely sure that there is no brain function in persons who had been categorised as PVS.

Beginning and end of life

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