X-Message-Number: 25957 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:34:58 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: about Trygve Bauge About Trygve Bauge: I do not know him personally, but his suggestion that patients in persistent vegetative state should receive the rights of live patients looks to me as if he has no idea at all what he's suggesting. While such patients should definitely get attention to see if their brain remains before anything else is done, the likelihood is that their upper brain has decayed completely. Regardless of what current law and "Definition of Death" say, such patients have died. Even worse, the state of their brain makes it impossible that they will ever really be recovered, no matter how advanced our medical technology may become. (Yes, we can recover a clone of them, and put what we know of the memories they might have had into the brains of that clone. But the clone remains a different individual than its original). Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25957