[quote]A sexual assault victim in India who remained in a coma for 42 years has died, rekindling the debate on legalizing euthanasia in the country.
Aruna Shanbaug, 67, died at 8.30am local time, Dr Avinash Supe, dean at the King Edward Memorial hospital in Mumbai, confirmed to CNN.
Shanbaug, who used to work as a staff nurse at the hospital, "was suffering from pneumonia for the past week and later suffered a cardiac arrest," Dr. Supe said.
"She was put on a ventilator during that time. She was being fed with a tube and had been in a vegetative state for the past 42 years," he said.
Supe referred to Shanbaug as a victim of sexual assault in 1973.
Pinki Virani, an author and journalist based in Mumbai, wrote a book entitled "Aruna's Story" in 2000, detailing Shanbaug's ordeal. In the book, Virani claimed Shanbaug was brutally sodomized and strangled with a dog chain by a sweeper at the hospital where she had worked.
On March 7, 2011, Virani submitted a petition to the supreme court of India for euthanasia for Shanbaug, a practice which is illegal in the country. But her petition was rejected by the court. [/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/asia/india-coma-victim-dies/index.html[/url]
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/world/asia/indian-nurse-aruna-shanbaug-dies-42-years-coma-after-rape.html[/url]
For what it's worth, I don't think I'd want to wake up after going comatose at the age of 25 to find that I was now 67.
India sounds like just a super place to be a women at.
At least it was a painless death, given the coma.
[QUOTE=jonu67;47751905]At least it was a painless death, given the coma.[/QUOTE]
Comas don't always mean you're not aware.
[QUOTE=Paramud;47751944]Comas don't always mean you're not aware.[/QUOTE] If there was anything conscious left in her, after 42 years of being a vegetable, any amount of pain over the course of a week must still be a relief in the end.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47752164]If there was anything conscious left in her, after 42 years of being a vegetable, any amount of pain over the course of a week must still be a relief in the end.[/QUOTE]
Being a vegetable is one of the scariest things I can think of, at least in terms of things that could happen to me. Can't believe what this lady went through.
Shit like that scares me. Imagen being fully aware for all that time, but are unable to express it.
[QUOTE=Bathtub;47753041]Being a vegetable is one of the scariest things I can think of, at least in terms of things that could happen to me. Can't believe what this lady went through.[/QUOTE]
I'd like to be euthanized if I'm ever made into a vegetable. Would that be legal? I have to fill out a form or something I recall.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47752164]If there was anything conscious left in her, after 42 years of being a vegetable, any amount of pain over the course of a week must still be a relief in the end.[/QUOTE]
Athrophy.
I believe all muscles would cease to be if one recovers.
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