[lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video"

tully tully at bellsouth.net
Wed Apr 6 19:24:13 PDT 2005


I'm almost glad you can't see that video, Marta, because I know it would upset you more, as it did me. I agree with Laura, there is no way you'll convince me that Terri was pvs.

Dunno if you saw the following article. You might want to take a look, but be aware it will take strength to read it to the end. I couldn't stop the tears after getting part way thru and had to come back to it later.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/johansen200503160848.asp

You are right, Marta, that what happened in this case was very wrong and it's obvious that the media has again kept the real story from us. BTW, rumor has it that Felos is on the board of directors of that hospice...

I hope it hits the fan over this one.

--tully

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:59 pm, Marta Russell 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



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