A little israeli settler shouts in the face of a little Palestenian boy: My father told me you Arabs are terrorists... to which the Palestenian boy replies: My father did not tell me anything, because your father killed him.
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Thank you for your reply.The issue might be simpler when also the brain stem is dead - however in the second case, the brain stem is intact, that is the patient can go into sleep-wake cycles, seems awake, might have some involuntary actions including grimaces and smiling from time to time - but the upper brain activity is nill (flat electroencephalogra m). In other words the patient is not aware of anything, has no consciousness of the surroundings or him/herself and there's no hope scientifically as the brain space becomes filled with liquid instead of brain material. These patients usually can breathe and their heart beats (as the brainstem that coordinates these activites is intact), but cannot eat or do any other thing.Some people think that there's time when these patients should be left alone, to die naturally (feeding tubes is an inartificial way of inserting food through naso-gastric tubes, or tubes that are inserted surgically from the stomach). The question here, the "treatment" of feeding is futile in this case - has no benefit to the patient, who is most probably not feeling or knowing anything.A lot of people believe that these techniques were not present, and people used to die naturally in their homes (in this case they might die because of dehydration and malnutrition) as they cannot eat by mouth. The issue is not as simple as you made and it might need some more debate.Baraka Allah feekomL.
