she waaaaants to live!!

To Florida DCF (dcf-osc@dcf.state.fl.us):

The affidavit testimony of Attorney Barbara Weller that Terri tried to say "I want to live" has been played all over the country now on cable news television. I read it myself a week ago, and peppered all the media with suggestions they interview Barbara Weller, including one reporter who wrote back and said he didn't believe me.

I don't understand why it was only put in Judge Greer's face today, but now it has indeed been entered as court evidence. We are watching and heartbroken all over America, that the courts have been so stone hearted, and the police guarding the hospice are "only following orders". Such a defense ultimately didn't hold up in the trials of Nazi war criminals, and it's not holding up in the court of American public opinion today.

Please ask your Dr. Cheshire and Dr. Hammesfahr if the reason that Terri performs/interacts with her parents and their lawyers, but essentially plays deaf, dumb, and dead for her estranged husband and his team, could be because in her brain-damaged state she has reverted to the state of a young pre-verbal child. Such young children will frequently distinguish between people, and only "come to" people they know and trust and sense love from, and totally clam up for people they don't trust. I'm a mom myself - I've seen this behavior hundreds of times.

If by some miracle Terri is saved from this ordeal, I think it would be a wonderful new area for neurological experts to explore --- the influence of real love in improving the interactions of brain-damaged people.

With Barbara Weller's testimony now in front of all of the world, isn't there ANYTHING you can do?

Heartbroken in Tucson, AZ,

Suzanne (last name)