Damn this article. At the top, it says his problems are that he can't see, can't eat, can't talk, can't breathe, is in pain, and there is no cure. I wrote this big long post listing the reasons why the plug shouldn't be pulled, since the kid isn't in a coma. His symptoms suck, but he is alert. You don't pull the plug on people who are awake.

After writing the big long post, I re-read the article, and it isn't until I see buried in the tail end of the article that the boy "is unaware of his surroundings." In my mind, that is the biggest point, and they bury it. Put it in the first paragraph CNN, you morons.

Anyway, they should pull the plug. Let the poor kid go.

No, but I would gladly turn off the vent if that is the final decision of the team.

This entire concept was described by a researcher on this subject in Scientific American - I believe the current and latest issue.

If the hospital pulls the plug, the parents can sue for wrongful death.

You want to be 'pro-choice'; well the parents are choosing for the child to live. Let's go to Nazi Germany where several non-Aryan parents had no choice whether their children live or die.

In Texas at least, where this case is, they will not win. There are a dozen cases of precedent.

What the fuck does Nazi Germany have to do with this case. Oh, that's right...nothing.

Godwin's Law

Screw Godwin. The parents are perfectly welcome to take the kid out of the hospital and to a nursing home, private care facility, or home with them. That way the hospital and Doctors can get on with the business of helping people and stop wasting time and resources on a vegetable.

Someone please give this dude a trophy.

You're kidding, right? Congress and the State of Florida both tried to intervene, so it wasn't easy for a lot of people who should have known better.

Which is what happened in the original case (for different reasons): Karen Ann Quinlan and a resulting hospice program .

It was easy for people without a political agenda.