Re: None of us knows for sure, but.... (big BUT)....

Interesting points. Haven't been able to see the video you mentioned/linked, but I have my doubts that WHATEVER the cause of her condition, she is really trying to communicate NOW. What you've expressed in previous posts seems to imply that she has some conscious control over her expressions (smiles, etc). If that were the case, then it would be easy enough to communicate through yes/no questioning...e.g. Smile if your husband strangled you...

Whatever else is under debate, I do believe the poor woman is for all intents brain dead and that's why the idea I floated above hasn't been attempted. There was a story done on this a few years ago that made the point that although she make look like she's got some level of coherence, it's illusory.

I agree ONE HUNDRED percent that starving her to death is an act of inhumanity that goes beyond comprehension. I went through THE EXACT SAME thing with my dad a few years ago. Probably posted something here at that time. His terminal condition was brought on by liver failure (hepatitis C) from a bad blood transfusion he got at the VA med center. Not only was death a certainty, but a PAINFUL one at that. It was all I could do to make sure they gave him enough morphine while he was still conscious, and even then, the docs/nurses were reluctant to dose him properly out of fear they might make a junkie out of a man with less than 10 days to live! They kept him alive for quite awhile on the feeding tube. They didn't allow him to die by starvation/dehydration UNTIL his stomach quit digesting the food they were pumping in there!

Which explains one of my political positions really well. I'm 100% for euthanasia, because that's the law that would have had to be in place so my dad wouldn't have had to suffer. We treat our mortally wounded pets with more compassion than we do ourselves. Much of the opposition to euthanasia comes from the Church. I guess they think that pointless suffering is part of God's plan?

Enjoy.

> Court testimony apparently shows that she NEVER suffered a cardiac arrest
> and NEVER suffered a heart attack. She did go into atrial fibrillation at
> some point, probably induced by the eating disorder, not much question
> about that one. While atrial fibrillation CAN bring on a heart attack or
> stroke, in her case, they say it did not.

> There is also apparently evidence of many broken bones -- evidence which
> the husband somehow had SEALED, and it just recently became available to
> her family. This, along with the evidence of severe neck trauma, probably
> strangulation.

> At this point, though, it doesn't matter whether the husband did it or not
> (I firmly believe he did, but that's my opinion)...

> All that matters is that a woman who is trying to speak and can follow
> commands and can see and hear and think and feel and laugh and smile and
> enjoy her family's attention is NOT starved to death.

> If she is finally declared worthy enough to live (like millions of other
> severely handicapped people who aren't in danger of being sentenced to
> death [yet]), then hopefully this will finally be investigated and the
> scumbag will fry... but she needs to be safely home with her family first.

> What I'd like to ask the judge if I didn't think it would piss him off:

> If he decides to sentence her to death, then why doesn't he sentence her
> to EUTHANASIA (i.e., a painless death, like that apparently reserved for
> convicted serial killers and family pets)?

> Answer: Because that would feel like murder, and I assume has a
> conscience somewhere. (Note, as I understand it, this judge has
> sentenced her to death before.

> Luv,

> MaaMaw