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Originally posted by kddani
I think her family really needs the help of counselors and psychiatrists more than it needs the help of lawyers. Saying that's she's talking, knows what's going on, etc. when every shred of medical evidence shows that that is impossible.
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Seriously. These people have spent way too long living in a state of denial, and this trial is now just legitimizing their madness. SHE HAS NO CEREBRAL CORTEX LEFT. I understand that her family members are in pain, but they've spent the past fifteen years just pushing reality away, and now they've put themselves in a situation where they're forced to deal with it and it is a hundred times worse than it would have been if they had accepted this inevitability from the start.
It's frustrating because many biological functions (blinking, making noises, , smiling, etc.) can persist even when the person no longer is "there." This can be really frustrating to watch for family members as they reinterpret these things as talking, being conscious -- and I think this is one thing that has had Terri's family hanging on -- but this is not the case. People often project their feelings onto their vegetative family members in situations like these. In Terri's case, with her cerebral cortex gone, there is no possible way that she COULD be still there. Everything is gone except the shell.
I just want this to be over so health care money can start going towards something more productive.