I personally think people who advocate keeping someone artificially alive with no genuine hope of a cure are advocating torture because that's how much pain you put them in by keeping them on machines, but of course the people advocating this have no fucking clue about what it would be like for them because they're all fit and healthy and in a position to make such ignorant comments.
It's like listening to men rant on about abortion and of course it's almost always men because women actually know the kind of pain and problems involved with pregnancy and having a child.
Man wakes up after 12 years of coma: “I was aware of everything”When he was 12, Martin Pistorius came home with a sore throat. His condition quickly deteriorated and he was soon unable to move or even talk, and eventually crashed into a coma which would go on to last 12 years. It’s not clear what his disease was, and doctors don’t really know what happened to him, though the likely suspect is cryptococcal meningitis. Everybody thought he was a “vegetable”, but after 12 years in a coma, not only did he wake up – but he says he remembers everything and was perfectly conscious for most of the time. His body became his prison, but he was ultimately able to escape after spending years trying to communicate with the outside world.
According to Martin, about two years in his condition, he regained consciousness.
Unfortunately, there were no tests conducted on him at the time, which would have likely figured out that his brain is very much active. Martin is subject of the first episode of NPR’s new series Invisibilia.
He says that among the worst memories is the cartoon character Barney, which he was forced to watch for hours and hours straight.
‘I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney,’ Martin recalled on the first episode of NPR’s new radio show about human behavior, Invisibilia.
Pistorius could see and even hear what was around him, but he couldn’t move. He felt as if his body was encased, and even when he started to make small movements, nobody noticed. That’s when the sadness really kicked in… and Barney was the last straw.
“You don’t really think about anything. You simply exist. It’s a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish.”
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/mind-and-brain/man-coma-wakes-up-14012015/--------------------------
No doubt, barney is pure torture...
