As ‘vegetative’ patients ‘talk’ to scientists, Professor Colin Blakemore assesses the profound implications this has for the sick – and the healthy
By Professor Colin Blakemore
What nightmare could be worse than being buried alive? Conscious, terrified, but unable to communicate through the impenetrable barrier of a coffin lid and a metre of earth. In the past few days, this ultimate horror has been transformed from the stuff of bad dreams and B movies to two very different front page stories.
First, the uplifting images of people being pulled from the rubble of Haiti, up to 15 days after the earthquake. The joy of seeing those individual miracles provided a thin veneer over the unthinkable thoughts about the thousands who must have died, unrescued. Read More…
