[wideminded]

Terri Schiavo WAS otherwise healthy.

Other than having severe irreversible brain damage.

[wagglebee]

Brain injuried DO NOT cause premature death and it should be noted that Terri was doing much better BEFORE her rehabilitation was stopped.

Also, how do you account for the brain injured people, some of whom had been in conditions worse than Terri’s and for longer periods, who DO recover? That doesn’t sound irreversible to me.