Posted on 05/26/2016 10:15:50 AM PDT by Prov1322
Ethos? Science?
Yeah......It's called wallet full / wallet empty syndrome.
Nor all those who have been declared brain dead and heard their docs harvesting their organs. I wonder if they use sedatives before they harvest those or just think the person can’t feel anything?
Patients in a vegetative state have open eyes and show periods of sleep and wakefulness, but they are unaware of themselves or others and unable to think, respond or do anything on purpose. Patients in a minimally conscious state show only intermittent and minimal signs of awareness of themselves or their environment.
ALGore?
A haiku:
Terry Schiavo
Could not be reached for comment
Cuz Bush let her die
Haiku:
I want one of these
On my wife when we do it
To find signs of life
I kid, I kid. Just channeling Rodney Dangerfield.
Nice, but a small correction:
Terry Schiavo
Could not be reached for comment;
Bushes let her die
(Both weighed in on the issue before cowarding out)
I got yer ethos haiku RIGHT HERE, pal:
Cant tell dem voter
From real brain dead person
More grant money, please
“Patients in a vegetative state have open eyes and show periods of sleep and wakefulness, but they are unaware of themselves or others and unable to think...”
A ludicrous statement. Since nobody on this planet possesses psychic powers to see into the mind of someone in this condition, we can’t possibly have any idea what they are aware of or whether they think.
Or they just check to see if the “organ donor” box is checked on the back of the driver’s license.
I’d guess they probably don’t use drugs for that. I mean, if you are harvesting liver and kidneys, any drugs you give the person would still be working their way through those organs when you cut them out.
“A ludicrous statement.”
No. A definition. The problem is determining IF a person is in fact in a vegetative state since we have no psychic powers to see into their minds.
Nailed it. Thank you.
“The problem is determining IF a person is in fact in a vegetative state since we have no psychic powers to see into their minds.”
Which makes it a definition with no practical application, so it’s ludicrous. We could define all sorts of conditions that may or may not exist, which are completely unverifiable. They’d be just as useful as this “vegetative state” nonsense.
Either a person is responsive and communicative to the point where we can ascertain they are aware and conscious, or they are not, in which case we can’t ascertain much of anything one way or the other.
#8 ~ Haiku:
I want one of these
On my wife when we do it
To find signs of life
I kid, I kid. Just channeling Rodney Dangerfield.
My wife was ALWAYS trouble
She starred in my bachelor’s party film
Things only got worse after...
I suffer from Dangerfield’s tourettes syndrome...
“Which makes it a definition with no practical application, so its ludicrous.”
Add to your list:
1. Empty
2. Insane
3. Ludicrous
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