Story Man in vegetative state becomes “minimally conscious”

[lmon]

After 15 years in a vegetative state, a man cries again

A car accident left a 34-year-old man in a vegetative state. Then, one day in 2016, vagus nerve stimulation brought him back from the brink

www.wired.co.uk

….so they're basically using this guy as an experiment. He was in a vegetative state for years, they tried a nerve stimulation treatment and he displayed sighs of consciousness for the 1st time in years, for example, shedding a tear.

I'd shed some tears too if I didn't have to be conscious in that state and they suddenly forced me to. This just seems so sick. So selfish.

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"After 15 years of being in a vegetative state, with no meaningful communication or sign of emotion, he could now be clinically classed as minimally conscious."

"When we saw a tear going down his cheek it was... emotional. It was just...", says Angela Sirigu
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"I said to myself and my collaborators, 'If we stimulate these pathways through the vagus nerve, can we increase alertness in patients in a vegetative state?'." Now, the answer appears to be a categorical yes.
The 34-year-old male patient was chosen because of the severity of his case. "If I show you the brain of this patient, you can see the left hemisphere is completely damaged.
^HUMAN LAB RAT wtf.
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We were so happy," she says. "We had a patient who was improving. We saw him all the time, examining him even outside the different experimental sessions. On one occasion, I was lying on his left side and talking to him. He looked at me but he cannot answer because he cannot talk."

Humans should not be subject to this. This should be illegal imo, I personally would file it under psychological torture.

 

[Manaaja]

It's disgusting to keep anyone in that state, disgusting and immoral. Let people leave this world when their time comes. No one should suffer like that.

 

[completely-done]

Wow, no. I will make sure I'm never found alive after my last attempt to ctb. I must die this this. It's inhumane to keep someone in a vegetate state ughh

 

[Bone]

This is sick. The quotes you pasted...

"I said to myself and my collaborators, 'If we stimulate these pathways through the vagus nerve, can we increase alertness in patients in a vegetative state?'.

You can almost see the doctor chomping at the bit. Maybe they can write a research paper about it and make "groundbreaking" research! God knows they're billing the shit out of someone's insurance or the state for this, too. What a sick, sad world this really is. Daria was right.

 

[Dot]

Cn only hpe tht th cryng ws bcse ws hppy @ feelng emotn frm musc & nt bcse = suffrng

 

[markimobzzdeasui]

And just like that my fears of afterlife or hell are gone!
Everything is here only. No limit to tortures! These doctors may not necessarily come under the same radar of immorality 'cause of research purposes and all, but the normies out there are no different I guess. They are doing it for maintaing their own assumptions.

 

[occamsrazor]

It's illegal and morality "incorrect" for human to ctb but completely legal and morally "correct" to keep human body, mind and soul kidnapped to be tested on like some experiment…it's wrong, just wrong

 

[OrcWitch]

One of my worst nightmares is being a conscious vegetable. Just sitting there staring and lost in my own head. Yikes.

 

[Depressed Cat]

This is completely unethical, shockingly immoral, unabashedly barbaric experimentation on a hapless human being.

Not only have they forcibly kept him in a vegetative state for 15 long years after half his brain was destroyed in that accident, they are now using his helplessness to treat him as a human guinea pig to inflict even more suffering on him.

The doctors who are doing this human experimentation so they can write a medical paper and make themselves feel better are scum. But what about his mother? Why is she even consenting to such medical torture on her son? Even if they're able to "revive" him more, he will have absolutely zero quality of life and will be completely dependent on others for everything. People are so hopelessly brainwashed by religious and social indoctrination that they have lost the ability to think for themselves.

I feel so sorry for that hapless man and I hope something happens that makes him escape this torturous medical experimentation on him and that he finds eternal peace soon.

 

[lostundead]

I said to myself and my collaborators, 'If we stimulate these pathways through the vagus nerve, can we increase alertness in patients in a vegetative state?'."

"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension"-Nikola Tesla.

 

[lmon]

One of my worst nightmares is being a conscious vegetable. Just sitting there staring and lost in my own head. Yikes.

Me too. My only comfort is most vegetables die in 5 years due to their body failing, at least that's what the 1st answer on google says.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

After 15 years in a vegetative state, a man cries again

A car accident left a 34-year-old man in a vegetative state. Then, one day in 2016, vagus nerve stimulation brought him back from the brink

www.wired.co.uk

….so they're basically using this guy as an experiment. He was in a vegetative state for years, they tried a nerve stimulation treatment and he displayed sighs of consciousness for the 1st time in years, for example, shedding a tear.

I'd shed some tears too if I didn't have to be conscious in that state and they suddenly forced me to. This just seems so sick. So selfish.

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"After 15 years of being in a vegetative state, with no meaningful communication or sign of emotion, he could now be clinically classed as minimally conscious."

"When we saw a tear going down his cheek it was... emotional. It was just...", says Angela Sirigu
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"I said to myself and my collaborators, 'If we stimulate these pathways through the vagus nerve, can we increase alertness in patients in a vegetative state?'." Now, the answer appears to be a categorical yes.
The 34-year-old male patient was chosen because of the severity of his case. "If I show you the brain of this patient, you can see the left hemisphere is completely damaged.
^HUMAN LAB RAT wtf.
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We were so happy," she says. "We had a patient who was improving. We saw him all the time, examining him even outside the different experimental sessions. On one occasion, I was lying on his left side and talking to him. He looked at me but he cannot answer because he cannot talk."

Humans should not be subject to this. This should be illegal imo, I personally would file it under psychological torture.

This person is suffering and the doctors just want to keep him alive to experiment on him.

This can happen to me or anybody any day. A car accident caused him to go into this vegetative state .
Anyone who rides in a vehicle or walks around moving vehicles can be a victim like this person and then they could experiment on the victim for decades.

Also stroke can happen to even young people.

So my question to the anti-choicers like the NYT is: Why should I continue working so hard to maintain a miserable existence and risk falling into an even worse hell like this semi conscious person suffering? For what reason? For what purpose? Why?

I see no purpose for my life . To me life is meaningless suffering .

There is no intelligent design of life. Life is just DNA . All life descended from a single DNA molecule. The article below shows how DNA formed randomly. There is no purpose. The only reality I see for my life is extreme pain and suffering.

Origin of life: A prebiotic route to DNA

DNA, the hereditary material, may have appeared on Earth earlier than has been assumed hitherto. Chemists now show that a simple reaction pathway could have given rise to DNA subunits on the early Earth.

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[GentleJerk]

Unbelievable. Poor dude. It's amazing how these medical minds only see an object of scientific interest, meanwhile a human being is experiencing what is undoubtedly horrible suffering. This upsets me greatly. Like another user said, I hope those tears are ones of joy, but somehow I doubt it.

 

[FractalTears]

This world is so horrible

 

[FuneralCry]

That is so horrific keeping someone alive who has no quality of life. It is so depressing to read things like that, it just makes me want to leave this world even more.

 

[dreadpirateroberts69]

This is just absolutely disgusting. How do these doctors think this is ok? How does his mother think this is ok?? Have any of them stopped to think even once what this must this must be like for him??? I don't want to be on this planet anymore

 

[Feeding Pigeons]

This is a nightmare and there needs to be a national discussion about quality of life. But it'll never happen.

 

[lmon]

This is a nightmare and there needs to be a national discussion about quality of life. But it'll never happen.

I know!!!! just like abortion, this should be a topic brought up when election time comes. but I guess it's not important enough

 

[orange]

If my attempt fails and they keep me conscious in a vegetative state, I'm personally coming back as a ghost when I do die to haunt their asses and their descendants'

 

[dreadpirateroberts69]

I want to add, this is why we should ALL have one of these (I still need to make one for myself): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive

 

[Murasa]

The very idea seems terrifying to me, trying to escape from this world and end up in an even smaller prison. where walls and bars are my flesh and bone.

The questions at the article's end make one thing clear to me, I must make sure to make my will manifest, In the event I end up in a vegetative state or if it is necessary to revive me.

 

[lmon]

If my attempt fails and they keep me conscious in a vegetative state, I'm personally coming back as a ghost when I do die to haunt their asses and their descendants'

Bahahahahahah!!!!!!! for real.

I want to add, this is why we should ALL have one of these (I still need to make one for myself): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive

Is this different than a dr? bc I heard they ignore those in suicides bc you're not sound of mind

 

[Foresight]

This is nightmare fuel. I can barely breathe thinking about this.

 

[willitpass]

Bahahahahahah!!!!!!! for real.

Is this different than a dr? bc I heard they ignore those in suicides bc you're not sound of mind

DNRs may be ignored if you are suicidal though i believe advanced directives are more like a will, stating what you would like to be done with you and your possessions when you are gone, or if you are left in a state of severe brain damage. i feel like they would be more likely to listen to those than a DNR as these advanced directives are something typically looked at once the situation had calmed down and they have had time to asses your long term prognosis

 

[lmon]

DNRs may be ignored if you are suicidal though i believe advanced directives are more like a will, stating what you would like to be done with you and your possessions when you are gone, or if you are left in a state of severe brain damage. i feel like they would be more likely to listen to those than a DNR as these advanced directives are something typically looked at once the situation had calmed down and they have had time to asses your long term prognosis

do you need a lawyer and all that?

 

[Of The Universe]

Is his name Joe Biden?

 

[justsayin]

This reminds me of an old movie and a song.

Johnny Got His Gun (1971) ⭐ 7.8 | Drama, War

1h 51m | PG

www.imdb.com