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Reading their website you can see

...what they want you to see: four minutes of video plucked from fifteen years is good for appeals to raw emotion, but this thing has been litigated for at least half that time, and the facts speak otherwise. Which doesn't include the very very shady organisations that fund them. Read some of the medical opinions from people who've actually examined her, as opposed to the armchair diagnostics and faith-based practitioners.

(And ask yourself why those snatches of video are from 2001 or 2002: why nothing more recent?)

You've been well and truly taken in by the propagandists, Katie. This woman's cerebral cortex is gone; it has atrophied; her head is full of spinal fluid. She's living on lizard-brain -- on the autonomous nervous system -- and that alone. And when she dies -- as she will, soon -- the 'culture of life' necrophiles will be baying for blood.

Be thankful that you're on the other side of the border: you already know what it's like to have your life intruded upon, and this case proves that the God-bothering wingnut right in the US stops at nothing to intrude upon personal tragedy for political ends.

What Nick said. There's an illuminating commentary on this issue in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There's another side of dying "in this dreadful way". Here's the sad tale of Charn Christmas.

http://www.charnchristmas.com/html/charnupdate.php

This story is a large part of why I quit my consulting job that had me travelling so much. Charn's husband works for the same employer that I did at the time.