What is a Cure?
Mar. 28th, 2005 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenite0I've been unhappily watching the current arguments over the definition of death and who gets to decide. This is only going to get worse as we invent more ways to repair damage and sustain badly damaged people. Anytime we settle on a definition somebody will come up with a new gadget that creates a loophole.
At the same time I'm watching the discussions on nanotechnology and other hoped-for breakthroughs. Science fiction has tossed out a whole bunch of possible technologies and reactions. I'd like to see what people really think of them.
So, a poll. If you were brain-damaged beyond any hope of recovery with current technology, but on stable life support, what would you think of these possibilities?
[Poll #463392]
There's a lot of ambiguities here--feel free to comment.
At the same time I'm watching the discussions on nanotechnology and other hoped-for breakthroughs. Science fiction has tossed out a whole bunch of possible technologies and reactions. I'd like to see what people really think of them.
So, a poll. If you were brain-damaged beyond any hope of recovery with current technology, but on stable life support, what would you think of these possibilities?
[Poll #463392]
There's a lot of ambiguities here--feel free to comment.
