True , it was pretty clickbaity . i was pretty drunk when I posted it last night . I guess you weren ' t in a barbershop . <| sep |> Terry schaivo lit up like a light bulb when she saw her mom . She opened her eyes and smiled widely . There are several videos showing this . I found this onlineThe overwhelming majority of people would agree that there are fates worse than death , Felossummed up in his closing arguments at the evidentiary hearing . Can you imagine the agony and torture if Terri Schiavo had cognition of her condition ? Thank God she doesn ' t , he said . Terri ' s sister , Suzanne Vitadamo , offered a contrasting interpretation of the taped medical examination . I see a horrific scene of somebody that ' s been neglected . She hasn ' t been given rehabilitation inover 10 years , but I still see my sister . She ' s in there . She is severely brain damaged . But she shows usall the time that she ' s in there just by her reactions , she told WND . Appearing live on The Oprah Winfrey show via satellite , Vitadamo described Terri ' s reactions as purposeful . image Schindler , Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo join Oprah via satellite , Nov . 14 , 2003 . Photo The Oprah Winfrey ShowWhen you go in and say ' hi ' to Terri , Terri will in a sense do her best to say ' hi ' to you . Or there ' s a lot of times where if you tell Terri you ' re going to leave , she ' ll cry . She doesn ' t want you to leave . So her reactions are very purposeful . She cries , she laughs and she follows me around the room . She laughs at her dad ' s jokes . Each day is different , Mary Schindler added . Bobby Schindler told Oprah there ' s a real misconception about Terri ' s medical condition . It ' s not just the family saying that Terri can be helped . We have over a dozen doctors half of them being neurologists that all have either testified or examined Terri and all believe that she could significantly improve if she was just given the chance , Bobby Schindler said . For whatever reason , Michael lost hope for Terri back in 1992 . And from that point on she has been completely neglected , has gotten no rehabilitation , no therapy . Schindler was referencing 17 sworn affidavits from medical experts collected by the family since Greer ' s PVS ruling , disputing Terri is in PVS . The number of affidavits has grown to 33 since this television interview . Three early affidavits came from physicians who saw Terri ' s videotaped examination during local TV stations ' coverage of the court proceedings and voluntarily jumped on the band wagon to try and save her . A more recent affidavit comes from Sarah Green Mele , a speechlanguage pathologist on the staff of the top rehabilitation facility in the country , Rehabilitative Institute of Chicago . WND reported Mele declared in a ninepage sworn statement that Terri Schiavo is definitely not in a persistent vegetative state and that she is trying to talk . Although she did not examine Terri Schiavo in person , Mele reviewed all her available medical records , including those for physical therapy , speech and language therapy and occupational therapy given during the first two years of her disability . She studied the videotape presented at the October evidentiary hearing , along with audio recordings of Terri and her father , in which she vocalizes in response to questions directed at her . The Schindlers posted three audio clips and a series of excerpts from the video on their website in an effort to muster public support . Among Mele ' s conclusions Mrs . Schiavo is clearly aware of her environment and interacts with it , albeit inconsistently . She is able to comprehend spoken language , and can , at least inconsistently , follow simple onestep commands . Her eye movements , easily observed on the videotape , are particularly suggestive that she recognized family members and responded . Terri is clearly vocalizing . She does not appear to vocalize at random during these examinations . Her vocalizations are generally purposeful and usually in response to specific environmental stimuli , most particularly family members . Mele noted the family has been trying to coach Terri in basic speech and that she seems to say yeah . Her use of this sound ' yeah ' on the audiotape is apparently in response to her father , she wrote . It is reasonable to conclude that Terri is trying , despite her motor deficits , to speak as best she can . Terri is clearly a suitable candidate for speechlanguage therapy . Encouraged by the physicians ' affidavits , but thwarted by the restricted access to Terri imposed by Michael Schiavo , the Schindlers conducted a covert rehabilitation program from November 2002 through February 2003 . WorldNetDaily exclusively reported Terri Schiavo received daily , hourlong toughlove therapy sessions over cellphone with staff members of a therapeutic company , Galaxy Wave Group . In December of 2002 , I confronted Ms . Schindler with the ' truth ' and told her that unless she helped me in returning her from the comatose state that she was in that she was going to die a horrid death , company president , Joe Champion wrote in a sworn affidavit . I explained in detail that they would remove the single tube that was providing her nutrition and she would slowly die of starvation . At this point , it was reported by her father that she sat up in bed and became teary eyed . At the time , Bob Schindler announced to supporters gathered outside of Terri ' s hospice that during the cellphone conversation with the therapist , his daughter suddenly bolted upright as if trying to get out of her chair . According to the therapist , who does not wish to be named , Terri was able to move her hand , her arm , her leg on command . She couldn ' t speak , but she followed instructions . The bottom line is she is not vegetative , the way the husband and the side the court has gone with want to portray her , the therapist said . She definitely has some brain damage and severe problems , but she is not a vegetable . Schindler family attorney Barbara Weller similarly reported the severely braininjured woman cried and yelled out that she wants to live after being told her lifesustaining feeding tube was about to be removed by court order . Weller essentially told Terri Schiavo , You had better say you want to live or they will kill you . Just say you want to live . Terri Schiavo responded with a drawn out , IIIIII , then screamed out waaaaaaaa so loudly that a police officer stationed outside the room came in . The officer then ordered Weller removed from the room , according to prominent prolife activist Randall Terry . The event was witnessed by Vitadamo and her husband , Michael . Read more at read that . Her husband just wanted her dead so he could get money as well as freedom to marry his mistress . Terry died a horrible death of starvation and dehydration . This whole case was a travesty .