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Israel's Ex-PM Ariel Sharon Dies, Aged 85

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KerFuFFler1/11/2014 1:49:00 pm PST

re: #21 Dark_Falcon

Sharon’s two surviving sons did not believe he was brain dead. There was a story on tests run on him in 2012-2013 that lent some credibility to that belief.

Somehow it seems even crueler to keep a comatose person alive for 8 years if you suspect that there is a glimmer of consciousness remaining. Imagine not being able to communicate any of your wishes for that long and remaining essentially blind and paralyzed. If you experienced an itch you could not scratch it and if any music was too loud you could not ask that it be turned down. Pure torture. As technology advances we really need to ask ourselves if “choosing life” is really always the moral choice.