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To: combjelly who wrote (226028)	3/23/2005 9:47:36 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574273

The problem with your analysis is that in a Video of Terri including sound, she verbally responded when asked by her mother if she was alright. Hearing Terri's response "aaaa,aaaaaaaa" objectively, one hears inflections exactly reflecting the inflections one would hear had she formed the intelligible word "alright" in response, with the intent of reassuring her mother. It is clear that she can follow objects. It is clear that she smiles when loved ones get in her face. These are responses vegetables simply don't have, and which she couldn't exhibit if in fact in her case "Sensory information gets gathered in the thalamus and then goes, nowhere." It is clear to me that what you think is clear isn't clear at all, and in evidence of this are 2 out of 5 Doctors who feel differently about her condition. If I weren't aware of the above realities, and believed her condition is certainly as far gone as you feel it is, I'd be far less haunted. It is true that we wouldn't kill animals this way, and would be punished if we did. How many people would wish to die by slow starvation this way? Would YOUR living will say "starve me to death even if I'm smiling when my family visits me? Truly, a judge believing in Terri's husbands honesty and right to therefore carry out Terri's wishes, ought say "we'll kill her humanely and quickly, or not at all." But in fact the honesty of her husband is itself in grave doubt. This which is happening to Terri now, with very real doubt existing, is thoroughly wrong, IMO. Dan B.