The reporting of the whole incident was rather murky, one story reported her as alive and well, another as dead as a doornail, and with reports of her parents being psychos and her husband itching to marry another girl it was pretty tough to form an educated opinion either way.

I only added that I wasn't aware refusing to feed a patient was legal, and that if she wasn't braindead I don't think It's moral. As to whether she was, I couldn't tell though all the media frenzy.

What? That has nothing to do with friends, supporters and family of the deceased.

I agree with Raoul Duke, but I would not put it in such harsh terms.

Terry Schiavo was a dead woman. Physically she may have been alive but mentally she was dead with no chance of recovery. And her parents keeping her on life support for 15--15--years out of "hope" that she would be all right.

She suffered for 15 more years than she had to because her parents couldn't let go. I'd say that's prett sick.

The problem with Krig's argument is that to most people, brain dead = dead. There is no progression there.

Exactly...his argument is completely ludicrous. The only reason many people supported this is because she IS brain dead, which is a very special circumstance. It's not the same as simply being disabled, because the person's mind is effectively dead.

Versus say, the $10+MILLION he was being offered TO divorce her? Or the $100K life insurance policy?

But don't forget the costs of medical treatment for her. And the costs of all these court cases and expensive attorney fees can level up.

Medical is covered under medical insurance, not the health insurance. He is paying for the funeral. As far as court, he could sue her parents to cover lawyer costs.

AGAIN THOUGH

He got maybe $100K off her death, $250K tops if he had a good life insurance policy. He would of gotten crap loads more if he had taken the $10 million and divorced her and left her parents forking up the funeral.

You can get life insurance worth more than $100,000.

Avenger, put it this way. You're 26 years old, is life insurance something on the top of your mind? Maybe.

But how many life insurance companies would cover a woman in a coma who might become a veggie?

"Uh yeah, I need to make a policy on my wife."
"Ok, how is her health?"
"She's in a coma right now."

Funny how so many call her brain dead when the doctor's said she was in a PVS. There's obviously a difference or the doctor's would have called her brain dead. Parts of her brain were obviously dead. It seems equally obvious that other parts weren't.

However all hopes of her regaining anything even close to cognitive reaction to ANYTHING was impossible.

She had no mental facilities left.

I don't believe you're able to determine that. Certainly not that she didn't have a thought in her head.

If I could find it again, there were image uploads of various brainwave activity tests, and they all showed nothing other basic muscle spasm type stuff.

So, uh in a nutshell, who was right?

There was a Firefox extension that told you how many days Terry Schaivo had left to live.

The blue stuff is cerebrospinal fluid. The white stuff is connective tracts.

the healthy brain looks like it has a face on it.

Kinda reminds me of this -- tells you how long Bush has to live. (You can also look up Gore and Britney, though I think most people want to see Bush die.)