lurkette

Thanks, JBX, but I don't pretend to understand what this woman's parents are going through. It's their daughter, and I can understand how they'd want to hope against hope that she could come back. None of us knows all of the story, but from what I've heard her cerebral cortex is just...gone. There's no recovery from that, and if it's true, then the parents are just deluded, and it would be kinder to just let her go. Everything they've seen, that I've read about, that they're interpreting as trying to communicate sounds like reflexes that they're just interpreting as what they want to see.

But to really cover all the bases, it seems like what might be best is to have a third party, or maybe a panel of medical specialists who aren't paid for by the parents or the husband or the special interest groups, make an unbiased assessment of her case and see if she does have any chance at recovery. I thought that's what the judge was supposed to do, but apparently that's not good enough for the Florida legislature. There's SO much spin being put on this thing by right-to-life and right-to-die and disabled rights advocates that it's hard to judge from the outside. But having been there with my brother, I know how tempting it is to hold onto hope that somehow this person you love could come back to you as they were before. But from what I've heard, it's just not gonna happen in this case.

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