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Of which I wholeheartedly agree.
If you have strong wishes about your care in the event you are incapacitated, then you MUST make them known.
The argument has been that Terri did not wish artificial life support, however verbal assertions cannot be proved, and if she felt so adamantly about it she should have had a living will. She did not.
Age of onset is certainly a factor, but it remains true that the brain CAN and DOES create NEW Neural Pathways when OLD Neural Pathways are damaged. This is a slow process, without an Advanced Directive who is ANYONE to say Ten years is enough time for her brain to begin the slow work of rewiring itself as best as it can?
The fact remains, she had no directive and she DOES have brain activity.
And as I demonstrated the term ' Persistent Vegatative State ' should be taken with a truckload full of salt.
This simply remains my opinion.
For whatever that is worth.
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