From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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.

On your example, I have no clue which way to go.  In my mind, this whole
situation is far more complicated, and bears far more thought,
consideration.

My person definition of "life support", are machines required to
breath, and sustain life.  If the body is able to do all that on it's own,
I don't consider feeding either by a human, or feeding tube falling under
the category of life support.  Others probably have a different definition.
That's mine though.

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Glenn M.
"Geo"  wrote in message news:424f342e{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:42474209$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> How about people in nursing homes who have Alzheimer's, and have no sense
> of
>> the world around them, and have to be fed by a nurse, aid, or family
> member?
>> Should they be killed/starved since they can't feed themselves?
>
> Alzheimer's patents are conscious and can detect people around them and
> interact with them on at least a basic level. Big difference between that
> and brain dead.
>
> But ok lets take it a bit further, lets say someone has their body damaged
> beyond repair in an accident but the doctors manage to save their head and
> keep it on life support. Ok so we have two patients like this, one is
> brain
> dead and the other is conscious and can be shown to be fully aware of the
> world around them.
>
> Which is a person and which is just a dead head with machines keeping it
> warm?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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