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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by karamanolev on Saturday October 22, 2022 @02:12PM (#33300605)
If you're really locked in, wouldn't you be going completely mad after only a few days or weeks? I approve of the idea to really make sure the person is brain dead, but how would you feel to be living locked in for months, years? How do they decide if you want mercy and for this to be done vs continue fighting to get back?
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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by techdragon on Saturday October 22, 2022 @02:20PM (#33300677)
Hence the quick edit to clarify a very important secondary opinion regarding medically assisted suicide.

Also I didn’t feel it necessarily to mention, but there are established protocols for communication with locked in patients. Effectively you explain to them you know they are locked in and work to develop any effective feedback loop, be it brain wave biofeedback, blinking, or anything else.

Once you can reliably ask yes no questions (and trust you aren’t miss interpreting the patient) you can eventually get to important questions like “do you want to live like this?”

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Re:Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious by Bombthecat on Saturday October 22, 2022 @11:02PM (#33304188)
But to who or what are you talking?

Are you talking to the conscious or subconscious?

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