# Are people too willing to pull life support? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-too-willing-to-pull-life-support/340648 "2006-01-19T13:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-too-willing-to-pull-life-support/340648/141 "2006-01-30T17:19:34Z")
> **[Haleigh Poutre is no Terri Schiavo](http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/01/30/haleigh_poutre_is_no_terri_schiavo/)** > > THE CASE of Haleigh Poutre, the battered child at the center of a legal and medical dispute in Massachusetts, is so horrific as to evoke medieval tableaux of hell. This 11-year-old girl was failed by all the adults in her life, from her biological... That article there has, for the most part, everything I am trying to say. > [@](#): > > Some caution that the high cost of caring for comatose patients may become a financial incentive to end life support. Did such considerations influence the decision-making at the DSS? All of this warrants investigation. > [@](#): > > Dr. Nancy Childs, a renowned brain injury specialist in Austin, Texas, told The Boston Globe that 16 percent of brain-injured adults recover after three months of unconsciousness. Neurologists also say that children, with their still-growing and more elastic brains, have a better prospect for recovery from brain injuries than adults. > [@](#): > > It deserves to be in the spotlight; it does not deserve to be turned into Terri Schiavo II. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-too-willing-to-pull-life-support/340648.md?page=7)