[wagglebee]

Medical professionals need to be far more careful before diagnosing a patient as PVS. If society rejects Hippocratic medicine and accepts euthanasia, the time would come where people in PVS would be treated as non-persons, euthanized out of a concept of false compassion or used as an organ donor based on utilitarian ethics.

This is EXACTLY what is happening.

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[SandRat]

O-Bozos Health Czar would have pulled the plug 22 years ago

[hennie pennie]

You're right! And what about all those cases years ago, we'd hear about people in PVS being taken to the dentist, where they were given strong shots of valium, prior to the exam -- and sometimes, people in "PVS" woke right up and started talking! from an injection of common old ordinary Valium!!

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[Halls]

Already happened to Terri Schiavo. That woman was starved and dehydrated to death and clearly there was life in her.

[Kolokotronis]

There was a piece on the BBC yesterday about this. What I saw for communication is what is called “facilitated communication”. It made a big splash here about 15-16 years ago getting up hopes that people with severe MR could communicate and then it was determined to be not a hoax exactly but not likely to be real communication. Here’s a link to an article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

Maybe this is real. I hope it is, but I honestly doubt it.

[neverdem]

Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn

AP version, they need better diagnostic criteria and functional MRI and/or PET standards before labeling PVS, IMHO.