Comatose dilemma - a no brainer !

I just read a news item about a brain dead man some

    " right to life "  state health official wanted kept alive - though

    " unable to eat, care for himself or communicate ".

          Before a car accident that ruptured his aorta, Hugh Finn

    must have had excellent communication skills. He had been a

    Louisville, Ky. , television news anchor. He might have even

    covered unpleasant, morbid stories like this.

           In a macabre Edgar Allen Poe story a dying man, M. Valdemar,

    is hypnotized at the point of death. Finally he groans out this

    request : " Please let me die ! "

           If there was a single thought left in the oxygen starved

    brain of Hugh Finn, it would be the same as Mr. M. Valdemar .

         But meddling Virginia state attorneys " pondered ways to

    keep the tube (Finn's ) in place without the family's blessing."

          Even though Virginia law recognizes a hopeless vegetative

    state!

             The ethical question of keeping the brain dead alive

    is literally - for minds uncorrupted by religious rubbish - A

    NO BRAINER !

              RIP Hugh Finn and many others like him .