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Man conscious during 23 year coma.

Sean VanGorder
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Definition of "Epic Fail". Words can't describe how sorry I feel for this man.

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  • MikeF
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    Saw this in the paper this morning, after experiencing sleep paralysis repeatedly for some time this is one of my biggest fears
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  • ZacD
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    MikeF wrote: »
    Saw this in the paper this morning, after experiencing sleep paralysis repeatedly for some time this is one of my biggest fears

    Make sure you say that in your will or something
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  • Dippndots
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    where's Dr. House when you need him
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  • Firebert
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    holly canole!
    that is insane! i can't even imagine... that guy has been through hell and back... i would venture to say very literally.
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  • Sean VanGorder
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    The next time I hear someone complain about their life I'm going to punch them in the throat.
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  • Eric Chadwick
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    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/houben-communication/
    Wired Science
    Reborn Coma Man’s Words May Be Bogus
    By Brandon Keim
    November 24, 2009 5:31 pm

    The statements of a Belgian man believed to be in a coma for 23 years, but recently discovered to be conscious, are poignant, but experts say they may not be his words at all. Rom Houben’s account of his ordeal, repeated in scores of news stories since appearing Saturday in Der Spiegel, appears to be delivered with assistance from an aide who helps guide his finger to letters on a flat computer keyboard. Called “facilitated communication,” that technique has been widely discredited, and is not considered scientifically valid.

    “If facilitated communication is part of this, and it appears to be, then I don’t trust it,” said Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics. “I’m not saying the whole thing is a hoax, but somebody ought to be checking this in greater detail. Any time facilitated communication of any sort is involved, red flags fly.”

    Facilitated communication came to prominence in the late 1970s after an Australian teacher reportedly used it to communicate with 12 children rendered speechless by cerebral palsy and other disorders. Over the next two decades, it gained some adherents in patient and medical communities, but failed to produce consistent results in controlled, scientific settings.

    Researchers said that facilitators were unconsciously or consciously guiding patients’ hands. Multiple professional organizations, including the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the American Academy of Pediatrics, say that facilitated communication is not credible.

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    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34132340/ns/health-health_care/
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