# Are people to willing to pull life support, revisited.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-to-willing-to-pull-life-support-revisited/440878>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 10, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-to-willing-to-pull-life-support-revisited/440878 "2008-03-10T20:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-to-willing-to-pull-life-support-revisited/440878/1 "2008-03-10T20:37:44Z")

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Bringing back the old [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354825&page=1&pp=50](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354825&page=1&pp=50)  
in it I argued that we where to willing to “pull the plug” on people and was argued with from top to bottom in regards to the Haleigh Poutre case. Now 2 years later I can come in here and ask again, are we too willing to pull life support?

> **[Once in Coma, Girl May Testify Against Alleged Attacker](https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4375206&page=1)**
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> Haleigh Poutre has apparently recovered to the extent she may testify.

I argued until I was blue in the face that doctors are not in total agreement on what can and cannot happen to the brain. DtC and others argued that I was wrong and she was a vegetable and nothing can change that. Her improvements where nothing but apparently they where.  
Miracle? Or a sign that sometimes the human body can heal itself in ways (the brain especially) that medical science has not caught up with yet?