From another list serve. My computer does not have the capacity to see this video but I do trust the person who sent it to me. marta
Those neurologists must not have seen the video that David posted to ADAPT-CAL at http://4lifeshaperite.com/rumbles/Conversations_with_Terri.html . Terri was very clearly responding to her father--and she very clearly said "Yeah!" at a very appropriate and responsive point in the conversation.
By the way, David, do you know whether this video was part of the same one that showed Terri following the balloon with her eyes? At the web site, the video is identified as "Forbidden Video," and as I recall, Terri's father made the video despite court instructions not to do it. Maybe that's why this was never allowed as evidence. But this is just one more example of how the court denied Terri the right to live.
The New York Times article is intriguing because on the one hand, it acknowledges that we still don't know everything about human consciousness, and on the other, it seems to say, "But in Terri Schiavo's case, we know for sure that she was in a vegetative state, not minimally conscious."
After seeing the "conversation" video, nobody will ever convince me that Terri was in a vegetative state.
--Laura --