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Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew. New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

2mon 4d ago by lemmy.zip/u/Valuy in medicine@mander.xyz from www.nytimes.com

Hi, it's vegetative me from the future. If I'm gone and unaware of anything, then it makes no difference to me if you pull the plug or not. If I'm aware, but so vegged to the point where nobody will ever know, for fucks sake yank that plug with the swiftness. My head is torture, and I'd kindly like to be relieved of it.

Miss you (maybe),
MelodiousFunk