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.
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.