[wagglebee]

This utilitarian approach to life and death issues represents an impoverished view of humanity and poses a grave threat to the future of civilization―especially to the weak, the frail, and the vulnerable. As human beings, our right to life should never be subject to a litmus test. Our net worth is far more than the sum of our assets and liabilities. Furthermore, we are obligated by our very humanity to care for the weak and frail among us.

Perfectly stated!

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[RnMomof7]

We had a case here in WNY where a fireman injured in an explosion was considered "brain dead" for over 15 years.. one day he woke up and started talking, his young family now all grown had an opportunity to meet their dad .

He died not long after this but he had been there all the time science called him brain dead

Another compelling case of emergence from MCS involved Don Herbert, a Buffalo firefighter. Herbert was injured in a 1995 fire, sustaining a mix of traumatic and hypoxic brain injury. For the first few months after his injury he met the criteria for MCS with occasional and episodic signs of awareness and verbalizations. For the next nine years he lingered, presumed to be vegetative, until he spontaneously regained fluent speech in 2005, emerging after a number of psychoactive drugs were given to him by a physiatrist.

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