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To: Ilaine who wrote (13917)	10/26/2003 2:16:32 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793625

But the point isn't whether she will recover, but whether it is ethical to stop her life merely because she isn't self-aware. CB, I don't know if you haven't answered my question because it slipped by you or because you chose not to. Please don't feel pressured by my repeating it. I'd like to know your thoughts but if you've had enough of this, that's OK, too. What I'd like to know is whether and how you'd change the generally accepted current procedures for dealing with patients in persistent vegetative states. Would you not allow courts the latitude to authorize "plug-pulling" unless there was a formal advance directive, that is, never based on what you called "hearsay?" That is my impression from what you're written. Is my impression correct?

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