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"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Beware the slippery slope.

How large a step is it from terminating the life of people who are
"unable
to
make the decision to end their own life", to terminating people
"who
are
not
capable of making the *right* decision, and want to go on living"?

Wow! Chuck and I agree.



Was done lots years ago. Baby born without a brain, the doctors put
the
baby to the side and let them die.

Better check your story there Bill. Babies born without a brain aren't
alive.



They are born with very little of the brain, and it is open to the
world.

Now it's "born with very little brain"? Before it was "born *without* a
brain". The term for the condition you are now referring to is
anencephaly.
Yes, an anencephalic baby can be alive for a short while. No, a baby "born
without a brain" cannot live.

As for my being a dentist...
We had two semesters studying cranial-facial development. I can tell you
all you need to know about neural tube defects and cranial-facial
abnormalities. Riley's Childrens' Hospital in Indianapolis (which is
adjacent to the dental school), has one of the premier cranio-facial
reconstructive teams in the World. One of the members of the team, Dr. RR
Hathaway, was my instructor for those two semesters. He's been published
plenty of times in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.


Close enough to brainless. And the baby could probably live for a short
time with out a brain. Heart still beats, blood pumps. There are people on
life support, who are brain dead. Then they pull the life support and they
finish dying.