Reply #66: That's where the debate lies

[Scootman78]

The parents and some doctors say she has brain activity because she shows responses to touch.

The husband and most other doctors say that the responses are actually just reflexes given off by the body and that since there has been no brain activity recorded on any charts since her stroke that put her in this 14-year coma, she is in a sense brain dead.

I know she's not completely brain dead because she can breathe on her own, but that's all she can do. You don't need total brain activity to do that though since only one region of your brain controls your breathing. I remember from my science days that the human brain doesn't regenerate itself. And if it does regenerate in some way, I know it doesn't in a way that Terri's parents hope for.

Theology vs. Medicine.
Compassion For Not Wanting To Let Go vs. Compassion For Mercy
One Way vs. The Other

Its pretty much impossible to be neutral on this issue.