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Here's another way to look at it.
We are a composite of what we are born with, and what we experience in life. In your friends case, the physical person is till there, but everything that made them uniquely "them" is gone. The person that you used to know is basically dead. It's now a new and different person. If the amnesia is permanent, it's a permanently new person. I suspect that wallowing in the past with this person will have very little meaning. If you want to really help them discover who they have become, then start sharing experiences with them. Do things together. Rebuild a new relationship with this new person. It might turn out you have nothing in common, and don't even really like each other any more. Or you may create a new and better relationship. Either way, it's not the same person.
It might look like your old friend, but it's not.
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