[VeritatisSplendor]

You know, given that there are surgeons still practising who operated on babies and small children without anesthetics, in the sincere belief that anesthesia was too risky for young patients and that their nervous systems were too immature to feel pain, and that these physicians dismissed cries and even the children's own reports of pain as reflexes and dreams -- given that, I would think physicians would be bloody well humble about dismissing families' reports of awareness in "vegetative" patients.

But they aren't.

Well, it took all sorts of controlled studies to convince the physicians about babies' pain, about what anybody with eyes and ears and common sense could tell you. Saw a study today - not all drs give local anesthetic for circumscision. In 20 years they will began to be convinced about PVS.

But there's still quality of life, don't you know. Control freak doctors convinced no one would want to live without control.

Mrs VS

[trebb]

right-to-die cases such as the one involving Terri Schiavo

More like a "right to kill my wife so I can collect the insurance" case. There is no record of her wanting to die under the conditions and even then, those cases are generally reserved for when life-support systems are needed, not when feeding is all that's required to preserve life.

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[nickcarraway]

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[Mike Bates]

Why is it that when I read or hear the word "vegetative" I always think of Democrats?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp