attitude to the permanent vegetative state
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Attitude to The Permanent Vegetative
State
• 1969, vegetative formally described by physicist from Cambridge wrote appeal to doctor in Lancet (article)• Imaginedhorror of surviving after road incident w severe brain
damage• Claimed X longer generally true (life should prserve by all means)• Respnse from Lancet ( unsympathetic)• (BUT) 2 years later, Lancet report 2 pt – 5months with neocortical
necrosis from anoxic brain damage• Titled ‘death of human being )• Ask anyone would want his own vegetative existence to be artificially
prolonged?
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