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For one, some people might prefer "this misery" to nothingness. Have you asked that particular guy?

Second, there have been cases of people in states like this for years, who then made a surprising recovery. Like this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/05/06/firefighter-miracle-...

Or this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230092/Rom-Houben-P...

But what I don't particularly like about that line of thinking, is this: medicine thrived and grew on a quest to fight disease and death. The talk about "pulling the plug" and euthanasia opens a huge "Overton Window" that can go from not treating terminally ill patients to eugenics.



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