On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:01:45PM +0530, ss wrote: > My own father chose death. I was by his side and fed him his last meal - much > of which went into his lungs. The thing that died was not really my father, > who had gone some months earlier.
Sad to hear that. Nasogastric tube or parenteral feeding was not an option? > I am sure people will have good reason to call a future intelligent robot by > any name other than human. A robot is not human, no matter how much How are meat robots different from the other (admittedly, currently theoretical) kind? > intelligence and sensitivity is stored up inside. A person with AML > unfotunately loses all the nice things that make him human and make life > livable. > > Sadly one cannot "choose life" and "choose death". It's not a choice. You can refuse life support or choose euthanasia if quality of life is insufferable. You can chose to be cryopreserved, or not. Sometimes, there are choices. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
