Periodically in the papers, one reads about a patient who had been in a vegetative state for years, miraculously awakening, summoning family, talking, etc. These seemingly miraculous cures, when all hope for benefit was considered lost, are often used
to argue against the use of physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia especially for patients in long-term vegetative states. In an essay, respond to the argument that one should not consider active euthanasia based on the fact that a cure could be found, or that somewhere someone had a miraculous recovery.
Miraculous recovery, by its very nature means that it is a very rare event. It would be impossible to formulate policy based on miraculous singular events. One should question what happens to the vast majority who do not awaken.
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