A "wish I never said that moment" for sure. Whether or not, the man said it was some two years before he awoke inside his own head and heard all this. A scary thing this is.
Well, as the years went by, maybe Martin himself wished he would die.
a lesson would be not to assume someone can’t hear or understand you and treat them with dignity and respect.
Wouldn't that be considered torture?
One of the first things I learned in nursing school is to always watch what you say around patients.
Hearing, it’s said, is the last sense to go.
A posting of a different article a few days ago if anyone
is interested in reading over 100 comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3246186/posts
The article is not clear on if the fellow’s mother is still alive, and if they have much of a relationship.
We ALL hate Barney.
If Jeb had his way he would just starve him to death.
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Lots of people would criticize a parent who had said that, but I’ve got to admit, if they cared for their son in that situation day in and day out for 12 years, I’m kind of amazed they only said something like that once. I can’t help but admire parents with that kind of devotion and sense of responsibility.
My youngest sister had a heart attack, she was pronounced dead, then they got a pulse, but they called it a persistent vegetative state.
I told my brother in law to keep trying. He did.
And she eventually woke up.
But she was different... she would be having a normal conversation with you, then all the sudden like start talking about buying paper towels or something else that has NO connection to the reality she was part of.
After a bit she would be normal again.
It’s very odd.
Not his time to die.
A few months ago I attended a psychiatry grand rounds at Duke University Hospital on this subject. They were able to communicate with people in a coma using MRIs and brain patterning to elicit responses.
One interesting question raised related to the competency for the individual in a long term coma to answer for themselves.
The research involved performing MRIs on a group of people when they were thinking of standing in place and hitting a tennis ball. They then did the same thing on the group with them imagining running around the tennis court but not hitting the ball.
They compared the two MRI patterns and found definite differences. They then asked the subjects to alternate every 30 seconds between the two thought images and monitored the differences.
Next they asked a question and said that if the answer was “YES” the subject should imagine standing in place hitting a tennis ball and if the answer was “NO”, they should imagine running around the tennis court without hitting the ball.
This yielded definite yes or no MRI pattern responses to questions.
Next they began asking questions to patients in a coma while in an MRI and found they could get “Yes” or “NO” answers from them by reading the MRI pattern.