Comments on: “Quality of life” doesn’t justify death sentence http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2005/06/17/quality-of-life-doesnt-justify-death-sentence.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:33:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Timothy Brophy http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2005/06/17/quality-of-life-doesnt-justify-death-sentence.html#comment-16 Timothy Brophy Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:43:04 +0000 http://catholicsphere.com/WordPress/?p=201#comment-16 If you squeeze out a sponge, it gets smaller and weighs less, but that doesn’t make it less of a sponge. One thing I don’t understand is the purpose of reiterating the size/ weight of her brain so often in news reels as if to demonstrate PVS. I mean, the brain is approximately 95% water, and they admitted to dehydration as the cause of death, and it took, what?, 13 days?, wouldn’t it follow that her brain would diminish in size and weight in proportion to the progression of water deprivation? If you squeeze out a sponge, it gets smaller and weighs less, but that doesn’t make it less of a sponge.

One thing I don’t understand is the purpose of reiterating the size/ weight of her brain so often in news reels as if to demonstrate PVS.

I mean, the brain is approximately 95% water, and they admitted to dehydration as the cause of death, and it took, what?, 13 days?, wouldn’t it follow that her brain would diminish in size and weight in proportion to the progression of water deprivation?

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