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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Yogizuna who wrote (100863)4/9/2005 9:38:37 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Pulling the plug can mean several different things. In the broadest sense, it means discontinuing artificial means of keeping someone alive. Even though Terri Schiavo could breathe on her own, she could not swallow, so she could not drink water or eat food. She had a predigested liquid pumped into her abdomen.

Terri was dead for several minutes before she was put on artificial life support. Her heart had stopped beating. That is why her brain died. So while some people see what has happened recently as pulling the plug, others see the last 15 years as extending life artificially once it had gone.

So I guess from your post, even though you did not say it exactly, you are going to go with what you saw on that old video even if it is determined by the autopsy that the part of the brain that allows people to be self aware and respond to others is completely gone?

I'm curious about this because I think it is interesting how we all rely on our belief systems for some things, and on science for others. I rely almost totally on science all the time. So if the autopsy reveals her higher brain functioning is totally gone, I would conclude that the old video is misleading, not that by some miracle she could function without that part of her brain. Some people rely almost totally on their belief systems, even when what they believe is completely impossible in reality. Of course, science changes also over time. But I think that scientists have an excellent understanding of brain function. Most people are a fascinating combination of these two ways of looking at things.
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