From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:15:50 +0000
Subject: Re: baby food and teleology


666etc:
> >  What I'm saying is that people who are vegetables, comatose, or anything
> > where they are basically dead to the world, are taking up resources and space
> > that another human who can enjoy life might need. In our society, this

darla kay
> it is obvious that you have never had someone you love in a position such
> as this.  maybe when you get older and less naive, you will learn a
> little something about it.

Also' vegetables, comatose, or anything where they are basically dead 
to the world' are not exactly synonyms. 

Brain dead is an accepted definition of death. 

Comatose isn't.

Basically  dead to the world......

........remind me not to nap in your presence.


>AS