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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 11:51 AM Original message |
brain dead, not brain dead - where are the doctors? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. First off, no one said she's brain dead. She's in PVS |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Pretty much, although hospitals have gone to court |
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Blind Tiresias (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 02:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. You are right |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. I heard yesterday that |
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ewagner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. Conflicting opinions |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. True. I guess by OPINION I mean actual expert opinion |
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reprobate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. In plain english this means she has no higher brain functions. |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. so she's become a republican? |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. An Objective, Professional Guardian ad Litem Concluded "no awareness" |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. this has become the religiously insane's fiction as truth |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. It's Periodic Wingnut Psychosis Syndrome |
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Quixote1818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. The courts sided with experts that said she was in a Vegetative state |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. Well, seeing as how the doctors who have actually diagnosed her |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, why not provide the link to such a statement? |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. REad the fucking case history |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. No one testified she is dead. |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:24 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. You must be a fast reader |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Do provide a quote from you link on someone testifying |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. The testimony stated clearly |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Having no cerebral cortex is not the same as being brain dead. |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Dude, she's dead. What was once Terri Shiavo no longer exists |
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Hoping4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 05:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. MRI shows the cortex is gone only her reptilian brain is functioning. |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
12. You don't have to be a Dr. to know she is not brain dead. |
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evil_orange_cat (910 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. breathing is a non-cognitive function controlled by the brain-stem |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Why not read a definition of brain death |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 01:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. She has no cerebral cortex, only a cerebellum |
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Blind Tiresias (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 02:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Cerebellum does not work |
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joanski01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 02:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Walt, you have the patience of a saint. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. Well, yes - unless you're an ignorant anti-science fundie. |
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CindyDale (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-05 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
29. Fact Versus Opinion |
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