- Words are so easy to use. Words mean things. Words are
also easily used, especially when the right words elude.
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- In Florida, Terri Schiavo is now waiting to die. Does
she know it? You can be assured she does. Can she speak about it? No. Does
that mean she is in a 'vegetative state'? NO!
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- But what is a 'vegetative state'? According to "Dr.
Jeffrey Frank, director of neurological and neurosurgical intensive care
at the University of Chicago" [1], "A person in a vegetative
state is 'awake but not aware,'... 'Though reflexes may cause them to turn
toward a sound, gaze at an object or respond to touch, 'there is no thought
connected ... these are primitive, instinctual responses.'" [1]
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- Excuse me?
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- That just described the vast majority of humans. Most
humans do not use the short-term 'conscious' process of their brain for
more than a way station of information. The motor control outputted from
that short-term process, if employed would dramatically reduce stress,
cut down drastically on reactionary physical violence and solve a great
deal of the world's problems.
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- The problem here is that neuroscience has not one clue
what being 'aware' means.
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- "'For all that medicine can do, we have no way of
looking into another person's mind and understanding what is there,' said
Dr. James Bernat, professor of neurology at Dartmouth Medical School."
[1]
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- But that does not stop courts from depending upon that
total ignorance to determine a 'vegetative state'.
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- In what other field would a court rely on 'expert'
testimony
and opinion where the 'expert' admits to not having a single clue as to
how the thing they are examining works? None!
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- In the mean time, Terri Schiavo is suffering from a lack
of motor control. He brain is sending signals to motion but those signals
are not getting through to muscle groups and that results in the inability
to speak, move and control motion.
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- From the outside looking in, neuroscience sees no motion
and declares a 'vegetative state'; news organizations, with even less of
a clue, declare the patient to be 'brain dead' (See any recent ABC news
report).
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- The facts are far more interesting.
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- Terri Schiavo is NOT brain dead. If she were she would
BE dead. Brain death is the measurement for lack of life in this country.
How dare a news organization mix those words?
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- Terri Schiavo is NOT in a 'vegetative state'. If she
were she would be on life support as a vegetable has no brain. How dare
a scientist mix words to diagnose an ailment that involves motor control.
She can swallow. She can eat. She can drink. She just cannot do it for
herself. Under that use of words, a paraplegic should be 'allowed to die'
as they cannot do so either.
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- "Though Schiavo has become a cause celebre, her
case is not unusual. Every day in hospitals and nursing homes, physicians
and families struggle to understand what is going on in people who have
suffered severe brain injuries: Do they feel? Do they think? Is this the
way they'd want to live?" [1]
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- How can the questions be asked if there is no knowledge
of their answers in a non brain damaged person? 'Feeling' is emotional
as well as physical but not one neuroscientist can tell you how it works.
'Thinking' is not something you can observe from the outside and without
'it' the brain would be inactive, not just motor deprived. Daring to ask
the question of a person in such a condition if they would 'want to live'
is imposing an issue on life that better be stopped now or it will put
an end to life.
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- Quality.
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- Quality of life is a variable best left alone to the
person experiencing it. When a court, or a guardian or anyone else
determines
what the quality of life is or should be for another person, life itself
is no longer the point.
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- Life is a binary condition. It either is, or it is not.
Any use of 'quality' to determine if the 'is' should be 'is not' is the
fundamental foundation of murder.
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- A person who kills makes the determination for another
person that their life is worth less than the person doing the killing.
There is no other variable. It is not only unlawful to take another
person's
life, it is totally and completely illogically wrong.
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- Snowballing error leads to missing logic and dire
results:
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- "...if someone is in a vegetative state for more
than 12 months, medical experts agree 'there is no possibility of
recovery,'
said Dr. Jack Kessler, director of the clinical neuroscience research
institute
at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. [1]
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- Wow. Medical experts agree. So what? There is NO MEDICAL
EXPERT WHO KNOWS WHAT THE BRAIN DOES WHEN IT IS WORKING CORRECTLY, HOW
COULD THEY KNOW WHAT IT DOES NOT DO WHEN IT IS NOT WORKING
CORRECTLY?
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- "People in a minimally conscious state give evidence
of some awareness and connection with their environment. Signs are subtle
but persistent over time and can include tracking a person visually,
blinking
in response to questions, grasping an object purposefully or moving a
finger
or a limb when asked." [1]
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- And therein lies the main cause of the problem associated
with 'experts' on the brain.
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- WYSIWYG.
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- If they cannot 'see' something happen it therefore must
not be happening. They would look at a car with a broken transmission and
declare it cannot run so the motor must be scrapped.
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- The brain processes information and it outputs motion.
When the motion is not being observed, the brain is NOT, not processing
information. To imply that lack of motion means lack of function is
scientific
absurdity.
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- Many sides of this issue want to reduce it to one of
right versus left, secular versus religious, gay marriage, abortion and
anything else that can be compared to government intervention. Joan Ryan,
writing in "Issues of life and death a struggle for secular
society",
in the San Fransisco Chronicle stated, "The case made me think about
the recent court decision in San Francisco overturning the ban on gay
marriage.
It made me think, too, about laws governing abortion, stem cell research,
assisted suicide." [2]
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- Ryan's problem is one most people suffer from. Reaction
syndrome. Since they receive data and compare it to prior data and out
comes the comparison regardless of the context or topic they wonder why
someone else who cannot do so would ever be considered enjoying a quality
life.
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- News Flash For Joan Ryan: Your reactionary writing can
be cured as it is an indication of your 'vegetative state' but since you
have motor control you have to WANT to be cured or bothering with you is
a waste of time. The topic is NOT YOUR OPINION.
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- Terri Schiavo is alive. She has a right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness in this country. For a court, to rely on
quackery
science to determine a condition of the brain she does not have any
different
than most humans, is the result of neuroscience pretending to know what
it does not know. Since 'experts' agree with each other it only shows the
experts are equally devoid of knowledge.
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- "Halfway through the process of dying, a patient
would lose consciousness, but courts, based on medical testimony, have
found that Schiavo is already unconscious and has no awareness of what's
taking place." [3]
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- If she were 'unconscious' she would be sleeping. If she
had no 'awareness' of what was taking place around her, she would be a
typical human.
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- TERRI SCHIAVO SIMPLY HAS A LACK OF MOTOR CONTROL.
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- So do people without limbs, in straight jackets and those
who will not do what the powerful want them to do.
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- Welcome to the slope of societal suicide based on
quackery.
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- Any 'expert' on the brain can only admit they do not
know how it works. They, therefore CANNOT declare how it DOES NOT WORK.
The words they use have no meaning when the knowledge used to spew them
has no clothes.
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- References:
- [1]
- http://www.capecodonline.com
- [2]
- http://www.sfgate.com
- [3]
- http://www.bradenton.com
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- http://www.terrisfight.org
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