Reply #38: You're kidding, right? [View All]

Her cerebral cortex is gone. Completely. It doesn't exist. Brain fluid has filled the cavity that remains.

Without your cerebral cortex, you don't think. You don't feel. You have no sense of self. You have no consciousness. Period.

YOU DO NOT RECOVER FROM THIS KIND OF INJURY EVER. I say again, EVER. Brain tissue does not spontaneously regenerate, which is the only way she could recover. It's impossible.

What her parents are trying to do by keeping her artificially alive is disgusting. This poor woman died years ago in every sense of the word. Letting her go would be the most merciful thing that can be done.

Existing like that is worse, to me, than being dead.