Jacob Segal
On 4/6/05 8:59 PM, "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote:
> 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