Originally Posted by KMA-628

You know what's sticking in my craw over this?

Did anyone see the episode of ER with the women from Sex and the City (Cynthia Nixon, I think)? It was interesting because she had a stroke but had almost no motor skills and couldn't speak, yet she could hear and think and feel pain. So, we kinda watched the events from her side, felt the fear she felt, etc.

Yes, I read the articles where they say the part of her brain where cognitive thinking occurs is mush, but....then you see the picture with her mom and it seems genuine.

It's really weird for me, especially since I have a DNR, but you still wonder. Does she know? Can she feel? Think? In any form?

We hear from the experts, but that is not 100%. We don't know for sure, we just have educated guesses.

In a sense, I feel pain for her family. They honestly believe that their daughter is somewhere in that girl. They honestly believe she can feel, think, react, etc. To the bottom of their hearts, they believe that their little girl is being tortured to death while she starves.

Everyone else, save the husband (I hope), is doing it for the cause. They really don't care about this girl, they care about the point.

But the family, right or wrong, really does love their daughter. And whether you think they are delusional are not, they are going through hell--Terri Schiavo hopefully has no idea what's going on......but I would never want to experience what that family is experiencing.