Kiran K Karthikeyan [09/10/09 01:07 +0530]:
Though it is not clear from the article, I wonder if the rationale is
based on economics i.e. the justification for the costs of being kept
"alive" is that he is still able to contribute to such projects.
The rationale is to find a reason, any reason at all, to stay alive - if
his brain works, as stephen hawking's does, there's a lot that can be done
to provide him with access to a computer, and to speech - so "he might as
well stay alive, and damn the fact that his body is an immobile shell"
When you have a terminal disease .. anything at all that looks like a
reason to stay alive, to focus on life instead of death, becomes a far more
powerful argument than economics.
(and I think Arun Mehta has something better developed, that he tried to
demo to Hawking some time back but Hawking was really sick at that time)
