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To: Bill who wrote (103974)	5/13/2005 5:35:35 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

why are you shocked, bill....i seem to recall hearing about at least two other cases of severe brain trauma recovery (after much longer periods of debilitation) how many more cases do we need to demonstrate, if we are going to err, best to err on the side of life?

To: Bill who wrote (103974)	5/13/2005 6:37:01 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Well please don't speak for me! Oh, and thank you! ;-) Neither of those people was in a persistent vegetative state, with a liquified higher brain. If you saw the film in the news reports of the fire fighter, for example, he had fairly good control of his motor skills even though he did not speak for a very long time. Terri Schiavo could not move her body at all, or hold her head up. There are all sorts of "head trauma." One example of how ridiculous it is to compare these people with Terri Schiavo is that woman stroke survivor who was on Larry King ad infinitum during the Schiavo debate. Her injury was not at all like Schiavo's, and the fact that she recovered was wonderful but irrelevant to the discussion. I would be fascinated to hear of a person who was in a clearly, reliably diagnosed persistent vegetative state who recovered. That would definitely make me reconsider my opinion. But not these cases.