From: "Geo" 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Not totally true (Alzheimer patients interacting).  I've been to a nursing
> home with a friend to visit a relative who was in an advanced state, did
not
> know anyone was there in the room, didn't react, but just talked randomly.
> She had to be feed by nurses.

My grandfather died from alzheimers and he was conscious and responded to
people being in the room. He just didn't know them.

> On your example, I have no clue which way to go.

The point I was trying to make is what is the difference between a brain
dead head on life support or a human arm on life support? Is there any? If
you were locked in a room with the arm, are you alone? If you are locked in
the room with a brain dead head, are you alone?

That's the best I can do to explain the point I'm trying to make. I don't
know what your answers to the above questions would be but if it made you
think then you at least are understanding the point.

Geo.

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