What chance? All that is Ms Shaivo was lost. What makes us, us is mostly the cerebral cortex. According to court testimony and outside interviews, the medical consensus is that this part of the brain has mostly died off and atrophied with Ms. Shaivo. All that is left is the lower functioning parts of the brain.
larry On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:15:07 -0700, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > exactly. And after going through the literature line by line with > Larr, I still think she has a chance that nobody has let her try > yet... > > Dana > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:57:05 -0600, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > > nnnnoooo, I don't think so. I am simply trying to put myself in her > > > place. > > > > Just curious, but what do you think her place is? At a minimum she's > > massively brain damaged and whoever she was is most likely gone > > forever. What's there today is just the empty container that used to > > hold her. > > > > I guess we'd all hold out hope that if we were in her position some > > new therapy would come along and restore us as if we'd been in a coma. > > Sadly though, she's not in a coma so we have a good gauge of where > > she's at. > > > > In all probability there's no therapy that could ever restore her if > > the cells that held the "her" encoding have died. That means that Ms. > > Schiavo passed away 15 years ago and the question today is what do we > > do with this new person? > > > > From this perspective, oddly, Terri, although gone, still owns her > > "container" which is actually a human. Were she here the law says > > it's her decision on what's to be done with the container even though > > it's a person. But because she's gone this decision falls onto her > > husband. > > > > As bio-engineering becomes more advance and we start getting products > > like new organs grown specifically for you, from you, these decisions > > become verrrryyyy tricky. > > > > Back to reality though, if it were my wife, I'd keep her on life support. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=17 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:148742 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
