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ngdawg · 09-08-2006, 01:59 PM

I'm sort of on the fence, personally. On the one hand, if I were to be comatose but an MRI showed brain activity, I certainly would not want the plug pulled. On the other hand, as science stands now, there's no way of either lifting the patient out of that state or communicating with the patient and I don't know I would want to be trapped like that.
Karen Ann Quinlan brought a lot of this debate to the forefront. After months of legal wrangling back and forth, they 'pulled the plug' only to have her live more than 10 years more, still in a vegetative state. Seems she wasn't as braindead as they thought. And therein lies the fear-what if they decide to pull the plug and there would have been more chance of recovery?

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ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	I'm sort of on the fence, personally. On the one hand, if I were to be comatose but an MRI showed brain activity, I certainly would not want the plug pulled. On the other hand, as science stands now, there's no way of either lifting the patient out of that state or communicating with the patient and I don't know I would want to be trapped like that. Karen Ann Quinlan brought a lot of this debate to the forefront. After months of legal wrangling back and forth, they 'pulled the plug' only to have her live more than 10 years more, still in a vegetative state. Seems she wasn't as braindead as they thought. And therein lies the fear-what if they decide to pull the plug and there would have been more chance of recovery? __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.