Is she in some weird gray area between being totally brain-dead and being... responsive?
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She hasn't got any fucking cerebrum to do that. There is no brain there.
So she's completely brain-dead?
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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tommyrot - Mar 18, 2005 8:40:44 am PST #7583 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Betsy HP - Mar 18, 2005 8:41:45 am PST #7584 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
No. She is totally brain dead. MRIs show that her cerebrum has been replaced by fluid.
People who have a working brain stem move, open and shut their eyes, and make noises. She does all the above. That doesn't mean that she's thinking or responding.
Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2005 8:41:59 am PST #7585 of 10001
Up with the sun
Can he divorce her, legally?
Aims - Mar 18, 2005 8:42:08 am PST #7586 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
See, this is something I don't understand. Husband/Wife = Next of Kin. End of story. If MY parents or Joe's parents EVER put up this kind of fight, I'd probably do the same thing.
brenda m - Mar 18, 2005 8:42:25 am PST #7587 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Is she in some weird gray area between being totally brain-dead and being... responsive?
Her cerebral cortex has liquified.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 8:42:39 am PST #7588 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, there was a thing in Mouth says she laughs and stuff. But, I think not.
Aims - Mar 18, 2005 8:43:00 am PST #7589 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Can he divorce her, legally?
I believe so, yes.
brenda m - Mar 18, 2005 8:44:30 am PST #7590 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Can he divorce her, legally?
No reason why he couldn't, I don't think. And honestly, it would have made life much easier on him. There are people who question his motives but...I don't know what they think he expects to get from this, beyond his stated goal of carrying out her wishes.
Betsy HP - Mar 18, 2005 8:46:11 am PST #7591 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
By now, everybody is locked into their positions and nobody will ever change.
But back when it all started, we had a husband (and by all accounts a loving husband who studied nursing in hopes of bringing his wife back) who said that his wife had wanted to die rather than live in a persistent vegetative state. And we had some parents who said, no, she's alive, she'll get better, she wouldn't have wanted to die.
- EVERY SINGLE COURT*, appeals court, you name it, has said (A) the husband gets to decide and (B) Terri Schiavo has no cerebral function and (C) she told her husband she didn't want to live like this.
If you boil it down to he said, she said, you have to choose between the husband and the parents. Settled case law says that the husband chooses, and I think that's right.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2005 8:47:17 am PST #7592 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wow.
Rejecting requests from Republican leaders in Congress, a Florida judge on Friday refused to again delay permission to remove the feeding tube keeping alive Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman at the center of a battle between her husband and her parents.