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		contingencies on April 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vegetative patient says 'I'm not in pain' So a whole bunch of people have been imprisoned while conscious ... stuck with no capacity to communicate but a constant hospital white noise as their sensory input for decades. Scary.

return0 on April 22, 2014 | [–]

They are known as locked-in patients. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

venomsnake on April 21, 2014 | [–]

Just think of the ones that have been unplugged ... and the @#$%storm that will come out of it.

Terry Shiavo may be just a storm in a teacup compared to that.

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