[Darkwolf377]

"Everyone who has interfered with Terri's homegoing ought to wear diapers to bed tonight -- just to get a taste of her last 15 years and however many more are imposed on her as a result of this unfortunate political opportunism."

So you think she's aware enough to know she's wearing diapers and you still think her brain is GONE?

[winstonchurchill]

WC: Everyone who has interfered with Terri's homegoing ought to wear diapers to bed tonight -- just to get a taste of her last 15 years and however many more are imposed on her as a result of this unfortunate political opportunism.

DW377: So you think she's aware enough to know she's wearing diapers and you still think her brain is GONE

Two points. I didn't say she was aware. She isn't aware of anything. She is gone.

Secondly, I don't think her brain is gone. All of the doctors who have examined here -- including the parents' doctors agree that the brain is physically gone, missing, not there. The only disagreement is that the parents' doctors -- without a scintilla of support in any medical literature -- think that perhaps some of the cells in her brain stem which remains (and keeps her breathing) could be trained. Her brain is gone, folks. G-O-N-E. As Judge Greer said 13 years ago, "the court finds beyond all doubt that [Terri] is in a persistent vegetative state .... The medical evidence before this court conclusively establishes that she has no hope of ever regaining consciousness and therefore capacity."

I think the most humorous aspect of all this is the large number of people for whom an organism without a brain who had some bizarre form of 'food' shoved through her body and into her diapers for 15 years is somehow representative of their version of "life".