Asleep for 25yrs...

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and she was telling me about her friend, lets call her Sue, who has a younger brother who is in a coma. That was so sad to me. I could only imagine what was going on in the family's mind. How emotional this would be for me. I have a younger sister and I would be devastated if she were to get hurt and entered into a coma. Oh yea, he was sledding down a hill in his town call "Dead Man's Hill". That name is not even appealing to my inter-adventurer.

However as I thought of this I felt for this family. As she talked about Sue's brother I learned he was 15 when he had his accident. He has been in this state for 25yrs!! Yes you read correctly 25yrs. He has been in this coma so long that his grandmother is gone, his mother, and his sister has not seen him in about 3-5 yrs or more. Their father has moved on and is living with another woman and doesn't visit.

Now my question is this, would you want to live this way? Would you want your family to keep you alive in this state? To live 25yrs in a sleep state not knowing if or when you will ever wake up? Now we must look at this scientifically, if he was to awaken would he be him? Would he have a productive and functional life? Would he really ever be able to run again, walk again, hell even as little as sit up on his own again? Will he be able to speak and say what is on is mind and heart?

Now even if we look at it in a movie type of way it is not appealing. You wake up say, today, and you are now 40yrs. Part of your family is dead and the others act as if you are dead. Now think about this, you went to sleep at 15yrs old, you wake up and you are 40!! How would you react? How do you think you would react? Could you really adjust to the world as it is? The world as we knew it in 1985 is totally different.


I have a lot of questions about this. I wonder how people would handle this if it were their family member. Would you allow them to keep living this way or would just let them go? How long is too long to allow someone to be in this state? Is it cruel to say you think they would be better off dead? Would I want to be held alive this way on a what if question?

Let me know how you feel on this subject. It could happen to any of us.As always...


Love, Peace, and HAPPINESS...