I read about this in the paper yesterday. Here is a quote:
People who are alive have more mental capacity than people who are dead. They are more aware of their environment, they have more personality and more memory.
OK, do you feel smarter having this information? Or maybe you already knew this since you're, you know, not dead!
But....and this is interesting....the article goes on to say that being dead is better than being in a vegetative state. The dead got higher scores. Those in a vegetative state are "more dead than dead."
These views are due, mostly, to our belief in an afterlife.
A vegetative state is a holding pattern. Death is a new beginning.
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